I was only thinking the other day, what Spalding really lacks for and desperately needs is another off-licence.
I mean, in some parts of town you have to walk up to 50 yards to find an opportunity to buy alcohol.
So how are those wonderfully colourful street drinkers to keep themselves adequately supplied in such an arid environment.
That’s all very well I thought, but where on earth could you site such a new and vital facility.
Of course, the answer came to me in a flash of genius, at the junction of two busy roads with no off-road parking, near a pedestrian crossing and a junior school, perfect, and with the additional benefit of being on one of the main roads into the town centre, couldn’t be better.
I know the very place, the junction of Hawthorn Bank and Winsover Road.
Let’s face it the queues from the town centre hardly ever back up as far as that junction, and even with the help of the vets and the dental surgery further up the Winsover Road, neither of which have adequate parking facilities, there are still odd times when traffic flows relatively freely into town.
How frustrating then to find that our blessed South Holland District Council had already seen the problem and had come up with the self-same solution.
They had already given permission for the old post office at the junction of Hawthorn Bank and Winsover Road to have an alcohol licence and all my worries were for nought.
So, back to happy daydreaming about how, soon, I’ll be able to enjoy an even longer journey time into Spalding’s already mis-managed traffic chaos, all achieved without putting any extra miles onto the old jalopy.
Brilliant.
Well done South Holland District Council.
Chris Harwin
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