Information

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12.00 p.m.

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

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Meetings and events from Thursday 1 December to Friday 16 December

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 1 Dec	2pm	Greater Cambridge City Deal Joint Assembly	Guildhall, City Council	Graham Watts
Fri 2 Dec

Mon 5 Dec	9:45am	Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Tue 6 Dec
Wed 7 Dec	9:30am	Planning Committee	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Thu 8 Dec	4pm	Greater Cambridge City Deal Executive Board	Council Chamber	Patrick Adams
Fri 9 Dec	10am	Civic Affairs Committee	Swansley Room	Patrick Adams


Mon 12 Dec
Tue 13 Dec	2pm	Planning Portfolio Holder’s Meeting	Monkfield Room	Ian Senior
Wed 14 Dec
Thu 15 Dec
Fri 16 Dec

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS

Payphone Removal Consultation - A505 Duxford

A proposal has been received from British Telecommunications plc for the removal of a public telephone box on the A505 opposite the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. As a result a consultation was launched on 21 November 2016.

The consultation will follow an agreed process in line with Ofcom guidance. The Parish Council has been informed.

For further information if required, please contact partnerships@scambs.gov.uk

Good App: Essential Server Maintenance on Tue 6 Dec 9am-12noon

The ICT Support Service is undertaking essential server maintenance on the Good App server on Tuesday 6^th Dec between 9am and 12pm.

During the work the Good App on your device will not be able to synchronise with the server.

If there are any issues with this downtime, please contact the service desk on 01954 713400.

We apologise for any inconvenience this work may cause.

GENERAL INFORMATION

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

23/11/2016	Cambridge News	District council votes for approval (devolution)		P6
23/11/2016	Cambridge News	Region poised to accept historic devolution deal		P6
23/11/2016	Cambridge News	Complete the 'clover leaf' (City Deal)		P18
23/11/2016	Cambridge News - Cambourne edition	District council votes for approval (devolution)		P6
23/11/2016	Cambridge News - Cambourne edition	Region poised to accept historic devolution deal		P6
23/11/2016	Cambridge News - Cambourne edition	Complete the 'clover leaf' (City Deal)		P18
23/11/2016	BBC Look East	Devolution deal secured for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
23/11/2016	ITV Anglia News	Devolution deal secured for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
23/11/2016	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Devolution deal secured for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
23/11/2016	Heart Radio	Devolution deal secured for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
23/11/2016	Star Radio	Devolution deal secured for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
23/11/2016	Cambridge Independent	County breaks new ground in historic devolution vote		P4
23/11/2016	Cambridge Independent	AstraZeneca tunnel gives fresh hope to campaigners calling for city metro (City Deal)		P6 and 7
24/11/2016	Cambridge News	It's a deal! City votes for £800m devolution deal		P7
24/11/2016	ITV Anglia News and online	Free thermal imaging camera loans help people see where heat is being lost from their homes		Link
25/11/2016	Cambridge News	We're hot: city is making most of its ancient assets		P9
26/11/2016	Cambridge News	'I don't want to lose you' Heidi Allen tells villages (Cllr Hales quoted)		P13
26/11/2016	Cambridge News	Busway an object lesson (Letter - Cllr Bridget Smith)		P16
28/11/2016	Cambridge News	So if you don't build it, there'll be fewer drivers (Cycling Campaign column)		P12
30/11/2016	Cambridge News	Our youth knows best (letter - reference Cllr Roberts)		P20

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.

Friday 25 November: Times: Natural flood protection gets £15m boost

The Government is providing £15 million for schemes that use natural measures such as planting trees to prevent flooding. Environmental campaigners backed the move.

Sunday 27 November: Telegraph: Green belt “swaps” will allow house-building

Ministers will next month publicly back building thousands of houses on green belt land despite a growing Conservative rebellion and concerns from environmental campaigners.

Monday 28 November: BBC Online: Flood spending decisions “perverse”, think tank says

England spends nearly four times more on activities that may cause flooding than it invests to actually combat flooding, the Green Alliance think tank has said.

Tuesday 29 November: Daily Mail: Council threatens residents with an £80 fine if they leave their bins out for too long over Christmas

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has warned residents they face £80 fines if they leave their rubbish bins out over Christmas and has provided a phone number for householders to report anyone breaking the rules.

View Planning Applications

To view the list of planning applications that have recently been submitted to the Council, please visit the authority’s on-line Planning Application Search. Once the page has loaded, you can use the Search option to set your own criteria of parish, area and date range.

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 23 NOVEMBER 2016

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’.

Designation of Swavesey Neighbourhood Area

View the background to item 7.

It is recommended that the Planning Portfolio Holder approves:

(a) The designation of a Neighbourhood Area for Swavesey as proposed by the Parish Council.

(b) An amendment to be made to the section about neighbourhood area of the Local Development Scheme when the LDS is reviewed in December 2016 so that Swavesey can be added to the list of Neighbourhood Area designated within the District.

This decision was first published on Wednesday 23 November and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 30 November at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Thursday 1 December.

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

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