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Lincolnshire County Council have applied to the District Council for outline planning permission to build up to 260 houses on Market Deeping’s Mill Field. It is neither the right time or the right place for such an application. It isn’t the right time because it is disrespectful of the County Council to preempt the decision […]

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Following years of myself and others seeking improvements to the footpath which passes through the recently constructed Persimmon housing development behind Market Deeping’s Tesco store, significant improvements could be on the cards. The Planning Inspectorate have now issued an interim decision relating to the future of the footpath. This follows the public inquiry held in August […]

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The public inquiry into the future of footpath no. 4, which passes through the Tesco site and the adjacent Persimmon housing development, concluded this morning. This followed a site visit earlier to look at the two routes involved in the inquiry. These are the existing legal route which is now obstructed by houses and the […]

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The Planning Inspectorate have confirmed that the public inquiry to consider whether the County Council’s plans to divert the footpath that runs down the side of Tesco and through the new Persimmon estate are acceptable is to take place in August. The County Council’s plan would make Persimmon’s current illegal diversion the new official route. […]

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The County Council has launched a campaign for fairer funding of local government in Lincolnshire by central government. This comes within a context of significant reductions in the funding our local authorities receive direct from central government and restrictions on increasing council tax which means it is not possible to maintain current spending levels. Unfortunately, […]

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The County Council are moving forward with plans to move a footpath in Market Deeping which crosses Persimmon’s development next to Tesco. It was discovered that the route of the footpath is now obstructed by several of the new houses and fencing following confusion as to the precise route. The County Council are looking to […]

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Next Friday, the County Council will debate a proposal to launch a public consultation on moving to a unitary system of local government in Lincolnshire. A unitary system would reduce the three layers of local government we have in our area; county, district, and parish, to two layers; a unitary authority and the parish council. […]

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Disappointed to see that the Larkfleet planning application for 240 homes off Towngate East is set to return to the District Council’s Development Control Committee for a decision to be made with sadly few improvements following last month’s meeting. At the earlier meeting, the committee deferred the application to give time for further investigation and […]

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With reports of numerous instances of drivers losing control of their vehicles on the Blenheim Way/Northfield Road corner on the industrial estate, it is not good enough for the authorities to put this down to driver error and do nothing to reduce the problem. If a pedestrian or a cyclist say were to be injured, simply […]

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The Chancellor’s Spending Review and Autumn Statement enabled local authorities responsible for social care to impose greater increases of council tax before being required to hold a referendum seeking approval of the change. Lincolnshire County Council are set to use this new power to increase council tax for 2016/17 by  3.95%. Yet as the Conservative leader […]

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