Pinchbeck United granted futile planning permission for ground upgrade

Pinchbeck United Football Club secured planning permission to upgrade its ground in Knight Street, but the parish council will not allow it.

Owner of the site, Pinchbeck Parish Council objected to the plan. It wants to keep Glebe Field accessible to all.

At a meeting on May 31, South Holland District Council’s planning committee chairman Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “It may seem a bit mad to spend your money, your time and effort applying for planning permission on a site which the owner has said ‘not over my dead body,’ but that’s not what we are here to determine.”

The committee voted 10-2 to approve the application for floodlights, security fencing, a stand and concrete path, in accordance with officer recommendations.

Promotion to the United Counties League requires Pinchbeck United to have an improved ground to play at. For the coming season it has agreed to share facilities with Spalding United at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, in Winfrey Avenue, Spalding.

Club chairman Andrew Withers said the £395 application was submitted in the hope the parish council would support it. Talks are now ongoing over other sites.

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