I read your latest headline with a sense of relief – relief that someone is listening and prepared to make a stand for the people of Spalding.
The town has reached saturation point with off-licences and simply doesn’t need any more.
As you quite rightly point out, the high number doesn’t encourage the diversification of shops and increases anti-social behaviour in the town.
I recently took my young son into town and he witnessed a very drunk man outside Boots – not the sort of behaviour I want him to see (or I want to see myself) at 3.30pm on a Saturday.
I am so fed up with seeing these off-licences open only to read some months later that they have broken the law.
It seems that SHDC’s Licensing Panel has a blatant disregard for the people of Spalding and continues to hand out licences like they’re sweets.
I just hope one day they’ll climb out of their Ivory tower and listen to the residents of this once lovely town.
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