{"id":610771,"date":"2026-05-29T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:21:10","slug":"lincolnshire-could-host-stage-of-the-tour-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610771\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincolnshire could host stage of the Tour of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, a council report says that while the event&#8217;s organisation could cost as much as \u00a3450,000, it would lead to a &#8220;large-scale promotion of Lincoln&#8217;s cultural and tourist assets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s total event is said to have provided a \u00a340m boost to the economies of the areas it passed through, the LDRS added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire County Council, which has previously hosted a leg of the race, said the area saw a multi-million-pound bump from spectators spending on accommodation, food and travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opportunity comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9wejwv571eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">70th  Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tour of Britain would take place after the city&#8217;s Steampunk Festival, which the report said would lead to &#8220;both opportunities and risks&#8221; logistically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council would be required to pay a hosting fee and be responsible for all traffic management and closures. It would also have to carry out work to improve road surfaces around the start and finish, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council committee is due to discuss the issue on 5 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a council report says that while the event&#8217;s organisation could cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}