Skegness News and Views

Update: The Plans for the Skegness SkyPier have been approved pretty much as described below. February 2010. New plans have been submitted to East Lindsey District Council regarding FAT LOUIS, GRAND PARADE, SKEGNESS, PE25 2UG. From the Details of Planning Application – S/153/02562/08 Plans can be found online at http://www.eldc.gov.uk/planning/AcolNetCGI.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=100344 Planning Permission – Erection of […]

The SEAS Festival Finale at the Embassy Theater was a fitting end to another poorly organised Skegness event. I arrived at the Embassy with my young son, we were welcomed into the theater by The Jolly Fisherman to what I was assured was a family night of musical entertainment. Here’s the information Skegness residents/visitors and […]

I wrote this a while back about the Illuminations Switch On, since the details haven’t been finalized I’m using this article for updates about Skegness Illumination event, in the comment section at the bottom of this page. Since things haven’t been confirmed yet and Skegness Illumination Switch On hasn’t taken place for some time a […]

Yes you read the title of this post correctly, East Lindsey District Council will STOP the green bin collections completely over the winter period (November to March)! I’m all for recycling and saving money and have always thought fortnightly collection of green bins throughout the year a waste of resources, even in summer our green […]

The Embassy Theatre could be expanded by using an upstairs space that is not used. There has apparently been a disused space in the Theatre since renovations took place in the Embassy 11 years ago! The Council are looking into ways to improve the Embassy Theatre for the public in Skegness and this extra space […]

I can’t get over over 1,000 of our neighbours voted BNP in 2005! That’s 2.4% of those who voted! Do you have any idea what the BNP really stand for? You might think it’s just to control immigration, but they have some nutty policies. For example they plan to force everyone to do national service. […]

There’s an article in the Skegness Standard: Skegness police seek funding to reduce violent assaults http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/Skegness-police-seek-funding-to.5728193.jp Skegness police are trying to obtain £15,000 in funding… To tackle this type of behaviour he (Inspector Terry Ball) is hoping to get £15,000 to allow the police to set up diversionary activities on 32 nights of the year […]

As regular late evening walkers in Skegness we’ve seen teenagers hanging around the Sunshine Play Area in the late evening. At times there’s over 20 teenagers hanging out and messing around on the play equipment and some are not exactly careful with the play equipment designed for young children! We understand there’s been a lot […]

Despite the bad behaviour of some teenagers in Skegness vandalizing the Skegness Sunshine play area, the Skegness Town Council have given the go ahead for the Sunshine Play Area to be expanded with play equipment designed for teens. The new play equipment will be a little further down from the Skegness Sunshine Play Area, so […]

The councils would love to bring a sculpture park to Skegness some where on the Skegness foreshore. Chief executive Nigel Howells told a town/district liaison meeting: “It’s a wonderful idea – people love sculptures, especially if they can crawl all over them, touch and feel them.” But at the moment due to the recession there’s […]