South Kesteven District Council

To check which day each of your bins will be emptied, simply type in your postcode into the box and click on search. You will then be shown a list of properties. Click on the required property and a list of bin collection dates will appear.

National Fraud Initiative

Currently, this Council, along with all other local authorities is participating in a national data matching exercise to assist the Audit Commission in the prevention and detection of fraud. For more information click here.

Statement of persons nominated

Statement as to the persons nominated for election as Councillor for the:

• Parish of Bourne Town Council - East Ward
• Bourne Abbey

View the election results.

Council tax rebilling

We have put together a question and answer section to answer all your questions about council tax rebilling following the decision to cap Lincolnshire Police. Please click here.

Click here for more information if you pay your council tax by direct debit.

Click here for more information if you pay cash/cheque.

Concessionary bus travel questions

We have put together a question and answer section to answer all your questions about the free national bus pass scheme operated by SKDC. Please click here.

A chance to have your say

Lincolnshire County Council, together with South Kesteven District Council and Bourne Town Council would like your views on new plans to bring together some of their shared services, such as getting a bus pass, borrowing a book, applying for an allotment and accessing other local information.View more information.

Proposed public payphone closures

British Telecom (BT) are proposing to close 72 public payphones (out of a total of 159) located throughout the district of South Kesteven. This is just under half (45%) of the public payphones in our area. We would like to find out what you think about this.

Update:

First notification of objections sent to Secretary of State.

Copies of final notification letters

BT Payphones letter of objection

final notification - schedule

On Friday 18 April, SKDC’s chief executive Duncan Kerr started his bike ride round Europe, which will take him through 15 countries, including France, Italy and many of the Baltic countries. He will cover approximately 10,000 kilometres and is expected back mid to late September 2008.

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What is Local Housing Allowance?

On 7 April 2008 the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) scheme is introduced nationally and will change how we calculate the maximum rent we can use for a housing benefit claim. Please refer to the Guide to LHA for further information.