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Boston is looking forward to a new era after receiving the news that it is to be given millions of pounds from the Government’s Towns Fund scheme. Boston is set to receive £21.9 million, having put forward several ambitious projects aimed at creating jobs by investing...

More than 40 affordable homes are to be built on the site of a former international printing company in Boston. Longhurst Group has been granted planning permission to build the 47 homes on the former Magnadata site off Norfolk Street in the town. The new development...

After Finance Portfolio Holder Jonathan Noble recommended to Full Council a balanced budget described as ‘ambitious for the Borough’, it was approved by a majority vote. Boston Borough Council agreed last night (Monday, March 1) that the coming year’s Council Tax...

Households across Boston are being asked to take part in Census 2021. Census day is on March 21, but households will now be receiving letters with online codes explaining how they can complete their forms. If you don’t get one in the next couple of weeks, please get...

The first certificates allowing shellfish exports to the European Union have been issued to a Boston-based company by officers from Boston Borough Council’s Environmental Health team. Following Brexit, with Britain no longer a part of the Customs Union, shellfish and...

A new project is underway to help protect Lincolnshire's local heritage.  Lincolnshire has been chosen to take part in a national scheme to help better understand and enhance existing records of our locally important buildings, monuments and places.   Funded by the...

A new Environment Policy for Boston has been approved to set the framework for action on the climate change agenda. The council, like many other local authorities across the country, declared a climate emergency in 2019 and pledged to work towards becoming more...

Boston Borough Council’s Portfolio Holder for Finance, Councillor Jonathan Noble, has this evening presented his first budget to the Council’s Cabinet.  The budget was supported and has now been recommended to Full Council for considered on March 1, 2021. Councillor...

We are pleased to be able announce that Public Health have been able to get extended funding for Boston to keep our Community ‘Rapid’ Testing sites open until the end of March 2021. Following Government announcements around schools being able to re-open from 8 March...

Residents in Boston borough will receive a new purple-lidded recycling bin, for clean and dry paper and card, next month. This borough-wide roll-out comes after the hugely successful trial last year where residents from Fenside, Wyberton and part of Boston Town...