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Contact: Patrick Adams  01954 713408 Email: democratic.services@scambs.gov.uk

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No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 29 January to 13 February 2015

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 29 Jan

10am

 

11am

 

2pm

Employment Committee

 

Leader’s Portfolio Holder

 

Council

Swansley Room A

 

Swansley Room B

 

Council Chamber

Graham Watts

 

Patrick Adams

 

Graham Watts

Fri 30 Jan

Mon 2 Feb

Midnight

Deadline for registering to speak at Planning Committee

Tue 3 Feb

2pm

Planning Portfolio Holder’s Meeting

Monkfield Room

Ian Senior

Wed 4 Feb

10am

Planning Committee

Council Chamber

Ian Senior

Thu 5 Feb

Fri 6 Feb

 

Mon 9 Feb

Tue 10 Feb

6pm

Scrutiny & Overview Committee

Swansley Room

Victoria Wallace

Wed 11 Feb

Thu 12 Feb

2pm

Cabinet

Swansley Room

Maggie Jennings (agenda)

Fri 13 Feb

 

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS

2.

Open for Business Magazine

Please click on the link below for January’s edition of “Open for Business” a council-led e-newsletter offering practical ideas, tailored advice, news and information for businesses in South Cambs:

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/open-for-business

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

3.

Media Monitoring

Arising from the results of the Member Communication Needs Survey, many members highlighted the fact that residents found out about SCDC matters through the media.

 

The Council’s Communications Team will produce a weekly summary of recent news items to be published in the Bulletin to help keep members informed of recent coverage of SCDC.

 

Contact the Communications Team for further information.

 

 

Date

Publication

Details

21/01/2015

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Ice rink plans for edge of Cambridge

 

21/01/2015

Cambridge News and online

Single team of planners to shape three districts

P14 and link

22/01/2015

Cambridge News

Abbey will remain the home of the U's

P1, 6 and link

22/01/2015

Cambridge News

Time to kick off fresh debate (Opinion piece - U's home)

P6

22/01/2015

Cambridge News

Council to hold own exhibition for houses (Melbourn PC)

P9

22/01/2015

Heart Radio and online

Cambridge United To Stay At Abbey Stadium

Link

22/01/2015

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cambridge United To Stay At Abbey Stadium

 

23/01/2015

Cambridge News

Fans happy United set to stay at the Abbey

P5

23/01/2015

Cambridge News and online

Cambridge United remaining at the Abbey: ‘I’d love to stay there until the day I die’, says CFU chairman Dave Matthew-Jones

P61 and link

24/01/2015

Cambridge News

University's green light for 'social' market square

P6

24/01/2015

Cambridge News

Be flexible over new sites (letter - Cllr Lockwood)

P14

26/01/2015

Cambridge News

Tunnels may provide the great escape (City Deal)

P1 and 6

26/01/2015

Cambridge News

Tunnels idea may well go down well (opinion piece)

P6

26/01/2015

Cambridge News and online

New powers to tackle raves (SCDC work with Police)

P45 and link

27/01/2015

Cambridge News and online

New Northstowe community forum

P7 and link

27/01/2015

Cambridge News

Tribute to dad killed on A505 (Cllr Topping quoted)

P9

27/01/2015

Cambridge News

City Deal aims to match young skills to employers

P12

27/01/2015

Cambridge News

Power to control our destiny

P17

27/01/2015

Heart Radio and online

Arrests follow raid at A14 car wash

Link

 

4.

Items of Interest from the Local Government Association (LGA)

Items of Interest from the Local Government Association (LGA)

 

The Local Government Association provides a list of news headlines relevant to its members. Please click the headlines below for more details.

 

Thursday 22 January 2015: Telegraph: Ministers lose automatic ban on gypsies building on Green Belt

Travellers will no longer automatically be banned from setting up camp on Green Belt land after the High Court ruled that the Government has been discriminating against them.

 

Thursday 22 January 2015: Telegraph: Right to Buy could be extended to housing association property

Millions of working Britons will be able to buy the homes they live in at a discounted price under a new right-to-buy scheme being pushed by senior Conservative ministers.

 

Thursday 22 January 2015: Times: Councils plan to defy freeze and raise bills

Nearly half of all local authorities are planning to increase council tax in the run-up to the election.

 

Thursday 22 January 2015: Mail: Council Tax “could raise £3.5 billion more than mansion tax”

Council tax reforms would be “fairer” and raise four times more than Labour’s mansion tax, the Centre for Economic and Business Research has claimed.

 

Friday 23 January 2015: Telegraph: Travellers must prove they are “nomadic”

Travellers must prove they are actually “travelling” under a new Government clampdown to stop them setting up camps on Green Belt.

 

Sunday 25 January 2015: Observer: Figures reveal Coalition broke right-to-buy pledge

Only one new affordable home has been built for more than every five sold under the Government’s revitalised right-to-buy scheme, according to official figures.

 

Monday 26 January 2015: Guardian: Council to cut rates for firms paying the living wage

Brent Council hopes to become the first in Britain to offer business rate discounts to companies that pay the living wage.

 

Tuesday 27 January 2015: Daily Mail: Council tax snoopers barred from homes

Thousands of council tax inspectors will be stripped of their right to go into homes under laws published today.

5.

Weekly Planning List

To view the list of planning applications submitted in the past seven days, please visit the Council’s on-line Planning Application Search.  Once the page has loaded, select the Planning Weekly List option to see planning applications determined or registered each week for the past ten weeks, or use the Search option to set your own criteria.

 

The system will provide a range of information on current and decided applications since 1948, including a brief description of the development, reference number, decision and the date of decision.  More recent applications show the name and telephone number of the council officer who is dealing with the application.

 

Search results are presented in a collection of pages, the number of which depends on the number of results your search produces.  There are navigation tools to allow you to browse your results.

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE DECISIONS TAKEN SINCE WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2015

In accordance with the Access to Information Procedure Rules in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, any executive decision shall be published normally within five days of being made.  That record will bear the date on which it is published and will specify that the decision will come into force, and may then be implemented, on the expiry of 5 working days after the publication of the decision, unless called in for review by the Chairman of the Scrutiny and Overview Committee or by any five other councillors.

 

A list of decisions currently within the call-in period is available on the Council’s website.

 

The call in procedure is set out in full in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, ‘Scrutiny and Overview Committee Procedure Rules’

6.

Write-Offs 2014/15

The Finance and Staffing Portfolio Holder agreed to write off the debt of the amount of £57,900.41 owed by Papworth Specialist Vehicles Limited (In Liquidation).

 

This decision was first published on 22 January and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 29 January. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 30 January.

DECISIONS MADE BY OFFICERS AND REPORTED FOR INFORMATION

Please click on the link below to find details of decisions made by officers under delegated authority:

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/content/access-information

OTHER INFORMATION

7.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

 

Agendas

·                      Leader’s Portfolio Meeting 29 Jan

·                      Employment Committee 29 Jan

·                      Council 29 Jan

·                      Planning Portfolio Holder 3 Feb

 

Decisions

·                      Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder 20 Jan

 

Minutes

·                      Civic Affairs Committee 15 Jan

 

Issues

·                      Write-offs 2014/15

·                      Size, Terms of reference & appointments to Committee for 2015/16

·                      Appointments to Outside, Joint and other Member Bodies for 2015/16

·                      Joint Annual Scrutiny & Overview Committee and Partnerships Review Committee Report

·                      Major Opposition Group Leader’s Annual Report

 

 

8.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

Staff who will be leaving

 

Name: Anne Rayment

Job title: Customer & Business Services Officer

Date leaving: 31 January 2015