Planning

Fears that a prominent town grot spot could remain an eyesore for decades to come have led councillors to approve plans for an ‘enormous’ care home.

A refused plan to turn a stable block into a timber clad home has been submitted again.

Children living in care could be housed closer to home if plans for a care home are approved.

A former shop will become a flat after planners approved the change of use.

New leisure facilities could be introduced at a golf club to keep up with a change in customer demands.

Educational bosses say plans to extend a primary school are not due to start until the end of the year, in order to prepare archaeological documents.

Gym memberships will continue to fall at a council-facility if it is not improved, councillors have warned.

Part of a town centre car wash could become a restaurant and take-away - with the developer claiming it would would create an ‘economic boost’.

A disused shop is set to become an 11-bedroom house in multiple occupation after planners gave the go-ahead.

A developer which says it cannot afford to pay full community contributions on a 434-home site says it is committed to helping meet housing supply.

Councillors were split over plans to turn a former pub into an 86-bed care home.

Plans have been submitted to alter an empty store.

Campaigners hope to persuade councillors not to pass a 86-bed care home by issuing images of how it could come to dominate Spalding’s skyline.

Councillors have objected to plans to build a solar farm covering more than 1,000 hectares of land on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border.

A civic society has blasted plans to turn a grot spot site into a ‘monster’ 86-bed care home — and demanded changes before it’s too late.

Plans to bring a dog exercising field to a Lincolnshire village have been met with opposition from residents.

A group of villagers are fighting to ensure a housing development on the edge of their village has minimal impact.

Plans have been put forward to reduce the speed limit on a Lincolnshire road from 50mph to 40mph.

A wildlife campaigner is disappointed that not enough people are voicing concern over a perceived threat to dormice population in a forest.

An empty pub could be taken over by a school and used as a sixth form centre and office space.