There are some very expensive homes on the market.
Everyone is guilty of a little window shopping, maybe we have a look at some houses that are a little outside our budget – or even a couple of million pounds out of budget.
The following luxury properties are currently on the market in Lincolnshire, with lavish rooms, acres of space and, yes, some stables for the horses.
Which of these ten properties would be your ideal home, if money was no object?
Sudbrook Heath, Grantham – £1.23 million
This magnificent Grade two listed property has a lot of character and even more bedrooms – nine to be exact.
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A new mental health unit near Sleaford, dedicated solely to women, has officially opened.
Work began on Ash Villa in Greylees back in September 2020, with a £400,000 refurbishment to turn it into a new acute treatment ward for women.
The 15-bed ward opened on Monday, March 1 and will provide support for women who are experiencing severe, short term episodes of ill mental health.
The Ash Villa building is now a new mental health ward. | Photo: LPFT
It will also be used for people who cannot be safely supported by community based services, complimenting existing acute mental health wards for adults in Boston and Lincoln.
Patients will receive an initial assessment and, where appropriate, can be transferred to the treatment ward at Ash Villa and receive support before discharge.
It is believed that the unit, managed by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, will ensure that less patients have to travel outside of the county for hospital care.
Ash Villa in Greylees will be home to a new women’s mental health ward.
Chris Higgins, director of operations at LPFT, said: “We are delighted to be opening a new mental health ward specifically for women.
“We have wanted to stop patients from having to travel further away from home for acute care for some time and coronavirus has magnified this challenge.
“Over the last two years we have had more females admitted to acute inpatient services than males and these additional beds will allow us flexibility across our entire adult acute inpatient services.”
North East Lincolnshire’s infection rate is on the rise as two Grimsby factory workers have died after testing positive for coronavirus.
Hilton Seafood confirmed two staff members of the 300 overall died after testing positive for COVID-19 and were treated at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital.
This comes as North East Lincolnshire’s infection rate has risen over the past week, placing the authority third place in Greater Lincolnshire and above the England average, as of Monday.
North East Lincolnshire’s latest epidemiology report released on Wednesday has put the increases down to “a large outbreak in a food processing factory and other smaller outbreaks in workplaces and the health and social care sector.”
The authority’s positivity rate is 5.8% currently, up from 4.8% a week ago. The new Kent COVID variant which is more contagious was identified in around 95% of positive samples that have been tested for the variant in the last two weeks in North East Lincolnshire.
There are currently four care homes in the authority reporting a combined total of 19 residents with coronavirus, an increase of seven from a week ago.
NEL’s seven-day rolling case rate
Lincolnshire has been bucking the trend and increasing in COVID-19 cases over the past couple of weeks, with infection rates in some areas now double the national average.
South Holland is number five in the UK, with a 208.4 infection rate — more than double England’s 102.9 figure as a whole. It’s believed outbreaks among field and factory workers are pushing the numbers up, along with extra testing.
Greater Lincolnshire’s infection rates from Feb 22 to Mar 1. | Data: Gov UK / Table: James Mayer for The Lincolnite
The second phase of a 145-home development has been approved by South Kesteven District Council.
The authority’s planning committee gave the go ahead to the 69-house section of Linden Homes’ plans for the western area of land off Linchfield Road.
Improvements to the original plans included a reduction in the distance bins would have to travel, a feature square, new boundary treatments and parking layout improvements.
Concerns from residents included the impact on traffic, noise, privacy and light, as well as some original elements missing, including stone houses and bungalows.
Ward Councillor Judy Stevens said it was “very important to the people of Deeping St James” to get it right.
Councillor Kate Shinkins-Hoppe, from Deeping St James parish council, said that despite improvements, there were still concerns over drainage, impact on the character, footpaths and traffic.
“Our parish council appreciates the work completed so far, however, when compared against new legislation, the current draft development falls short,” she said.
How the new phase will be laid out.
Councillors also criticised the designs, with Councillor Virginia Moran calling them “little boxes which are ticky tacky”.
The developers said they had engaged positively with the council.
Agent Georgina McRae said: “The scene before you today will provide a good quality design and a development that will be appropriate and integrate well with surrounding context, the internal layout and being at space are considered to be appropriate.”
The development includes nearly £1 million contributions towards health, education and public transport.
Councillors included new conditions for a construction management plan with a new access point to the site, as well as for three additional houses to be in stone and for details of street furniture to be provided and approved at a later stage.
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