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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

In Grantham earlier, I attended today’s meeting of the District Council’s Development Management Committee. The committee were considering the application to build up to 145 homes off Linchfield Road. I’m happy overall with the result. The application has been approved with conditions that require the developer to pay towards improving local facilities and that require […]

Following further recent cases of travellers occupying land in the Deepings, I have again called for a Deepings wide response to the problem at last week’s Town Council meeting. In response to the recent travellers camp on Tattershall Drive, we were told of a plan by the land owner, the District Council, to erect birdsmouth, knee-rail fencing to […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Residents in Market Deeping and Deeping St James should this week have received a questionnaire from Deepings First, the group working on a neighbourhood development plan for the area, with their copy of the Deepings Advertiser. It is important that everyone gets involved in this process. People in Deeping have been disappointed and confused by […]