Meeting on how to spend £32k

People in Long Sutton are to be asked what the parish council should do with £32,000 refunded after a development failed to go ahead.

The authority has the money after originally selling land at Winfrey Park to Korvin Developments for a proposed development.
But the company has since become defunct and as a condition of the original sale, the land has now been passed back to the authority which has already replanted trees which had been removed as part of the initial development works.
A resolution was passed at a previous public meeting to allow the sale, as long as Long Sutton Parish Council held another meeting where the electorate will be asked on what community projects the money should be spent.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 21 at St Mary’s Church Hall, Long Sutton at 7pm.
Parishioners are now being asked to come forward with ideas and projects.
Clerk Karen Treacher said: “We will receive suggestions and the move forward with the most suitable.
“Then the parishioners would vote for proposals at a parish meeting.
“All of the projects will have to be put forward by the parishioners, the councillors are not making any proposals.
“There’s no criteria been set, but the funds can only be spent on a capital project and not revenue.”