No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Water company Anglian Water are working on plans for a new large reservoir near Spalding. The proposed South Lincolnshire Reservoir would have a capacity of around 50,000 million litres. That’s about 20,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. For comparison, Anglian Water’s Rutland Water reservoir has a capacity of around 120,000 […]

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With the news of the inability of Virgin Trains East Coast to meet their future commitments to pay the Government for their right to operate services on the East Coast Main Line, nationalisation is again being touted as the solution. The inter-city franchise has a rather tortuous history, with GNER, National Express, and now Virgin/Stagecoach […]

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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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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 […]

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It was pleasing to see on Friday morning that Theresa May’s arrogant, shameful attempt to crush opposition has been rightly rewarded with the loss of the Conservative’s majority in the House of Commons. Locally, the Lib Dem performance was largely similar to that from two years ago in 2015. There is obviously work we need to […]

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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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Some welcome ideas to improve how the Town Council communicates with residents were discussed at the meeting this Wednesday. I’m glad that the Council have agreed to make greater use of social media such as Facebook to publicise upcoming meetings and other events. A further newsletter will also be published in October/November. I expect that […]

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I’m disappointed that the Town Council has this evening decided to rush ahead with work to fence-off the John Eve field. This is a response to a recent case where travellers moved onto the field with caravans and motorhomes without permission. It is good that on this recent occasion the situation was resolved quickly and thanks […]

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