Skegness Pier Toilets no Longer Funded by ELDC
Stuart Davy, ELDC strategic director has said: “These toilets have not received any investment for some considerable time and fall well below the standard that we would wish to be offering visitors to the resort.” I can understand East Lindsey District Council not wanting to be associated with below standard toilets, it puts the town […]
Skegness Boating Lake – What’s going on with the Yellow Water
Skegness Boating Lake has changed it’s water colour to yellow in 2011. We walk around the boating lake twice a day on our daily walks and the colour of the water has got us concerned, since spring the water has become a bright mustard yellow colour. It looks like toxic waste, don’t fall in kids […]
Are ELDC and Skegness Town Council Doing Enough to Promote Skegness Tourism?
Skegness relies on tourists, if tourism dries up Skegness dies. The councils should be going out of their way to make visitors stay in Skegness as enjoyable as possible with an aim every pound the council spends will reap at least the same amount back. Having a golden sands beach is not a good enough […]
Boston and Skegness General Election, Who Will You Vote for and Why?
Based on the 2005 general election results for Boston and Skegness Conservative – Mark Simmonds 19,329 votes 46.2% Labour – Paul Kenny 13,422 votes 32.1% UKIP – Richard Horsnell 4,024 votes 9.6% Liberal Democrat – Alan Riley 3,649 votes 8.7% BNP – Wendy Russell 1,025 votes 2.4% Green – Marcus Petz 420 votes 1.0% Majority […]
What does the future hold for Skegness’ Embassy Theatre?
The Embassy Theatre seems to be a hot topic at the moment for East Lindsey District Council on improving the Skegness Theatre. In a news article in the Skegness Standard it was reported, Since November last year, the Embassy Theatre has come under the spotlight at a series of meetings of a task-and-finish group set […]
Skegness Police Seek Funding to Reduce Violent Assaults
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 […]
Skegness Teenagers on the Sunshine Play Area Problem
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 […]
Skegness Sunshine Play Area Expansion
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 […]
Skegness Sculpture Park
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 […]
Nottingham Riviera Can’t Beat Skegness?
I stumbled upon this news article in the Skegness Standard during August where the local Skegness newspaper had written a report about the Nottingham Riviera Life is a beach. The Skegness Standard covered the report over a complaint supposedly by someone who went to the Nottingham Riviera and was disappointed by the urban beach and […]
