Your front page (March 9) casually mentioned that “Springfields, which opened in 2005, was always supposed to have been limited in what it could sell so that it didn’t compete with the town centre”. Followed by the “acceptance by South Holland District Council that that policy has never been properly enforced”.
It wasn’t properly enforced because it had never been the intention of the council to build a few factory outlet shops and improve the gardens in the first place. There was a meeting and we saw the plans.
Now we are told that “there is an even more relaxed approach to it”.
Meaning that after the council failed to enforce the policy in the first place, it gives them the right to ignore it altogether.
So why do I feel that “The new Local Plan – expected today (Thursday) to be approved for public consultation” will already have been given the go-ahead?
John Congreve
Abbots Way
Spalding
Abbots Way
Spalding
