In a move that has ignited discussion, Boston Borough Council has given the go-ahead for two significant housing projects in Fishtoft, in spite of concerns raised by local parish councillors over the village’s ability to handle an influx of new inhabitants. These approved developments comprise 89 houses by Gleeson Regeneration to the east of Gaysfield Road and a separate scheme for 142 houses at a site off Puritan Way in Boston. The Parish Council in Fishtoft aired anxieties regarding their village’s insufficient infrastructure to withstand such expansion. Councillor James Cantwell described the rise in properties as excessive, whereas Councillor Stephen Woodliffe brought attention to worries about flood risk. Despite this, planners stated that there was no opposition from Anglian Water and concluded that the projects fitted within the local area’s strategies for growth. Concurrently, another proposal for 102 residences in the vicinity of White House Lane was dismissed, with authorities pointing to problems with density and the architectural coherence with the current village milieu.
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