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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 22 February 2017 12.00 p.m.

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

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Meetings and events from Thursday 23 February to Friday 10 March 2017

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 23 Feb	10am 2pm	CDRP Board Stakeholder Event Council	Monkfield Room Council Chamber	Ian Senior (minutes) Patrick Adams
Fri 24 Feb

Mon 27 Feb
Tue 28 Feb
Wed 1 Mar	9:45am 2pm	Planning Committee Greater Cambridge City Deal Joint Assembly	Council Chamber Shire Hall	Ian Senior Patrick Adams
Thu 2 Mar
Fri 3 Mar


Mon 6 Mar
Tue 7 Mar
Wed 8 Mar	2pm 4pm	Economic Development Portfolio Holder Meeting – CANCELLED Greater Cambridge City Deal Executive Board	Shire Hall	Patrick Adams
Thu 9 Mar
Fri 10 Mar

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

SE Parishes Patch Meeting: Connecting Communities: Wed 8 March 5-7.30pm The Fulbourn Centre PDF 447 KB

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As promised, we have organised the next South East parishes patch meeting. This meeting will look at 'services for older people' and will be an opportunity to find out about some of the services already in place locally, and for them to showcase what they do. We will be looking at the kinds of services and ideas you might like to see replicated in your local area, how to make this happen and hopefully giving information about setting up, funding, training and support. There will be time allocated to networking, stalls and case studies to take away on the day.

Confirmed speakers and attendees include:

· Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - warden schemes, visiting schemes and handypersons scheme

· Care Network Cambridgeshire - car schemes, navigators and care schemes

· Jean Newman, Older People's Co-ordinator for Histon & Impington - her role and funding model

· Joy Bray, Parish Councillor for Great Wilbraham - mental health first aid training

· Helen Stepney / Jane Lampshire - activities for older people and Active & Healthy for Life GP referral scheme

· Cambridgeshire County Council - a range of topics including Good Neighbour Schemes, scams and rogue trader prevention, time-banking

· Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - funding opportunities

· Cambridge CVS - support with setting up and running groups, funding, training and governance

If you, your parish council members, or members of your community with a keen interest would like to come, please contact kathryn.hawkes@scambs.gov.uk or call 01954 712932 as soon as possible. Refreshments will be available on the night.

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

15/02/2017	Cambridge News	D-Day looming for new bridge over River Cam (City Deal)	P8
15/02/2017	Cambridge News	Bus concerns not nimbyism (letter - City Deal)	P18
15/02/2017	Custom Build Strategy	South Cambs District Council shares its custom build philosophy – and action plan	Link
15/02/2017	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cambridge City Football Club - appeal against Council decision upheld
15/02/2017	Cambridge News online	Judges uphold appeal against new Cambridge City FC stadium in Sawston	Link
16/02/2017	Cambridge News	Proposal for city quarter at new railway station	P4
16/02/2017	Cambridge News	Cycle groups backing for 'vital' bridge	P14
16/02/2017	Cambridge News online	Hundreds turn out to oppose village plans for village South Cambridgeshire village	Link
17/02/2017	Cambridge News	Villagers in protest over new village homes development	P4
17/02/2017	Cambridge News	How to tackle growing pains (letter - City Deal)	P4
17/02/2017	Cambridge News online	Liberal Democrat councillor apologises for 'untrue' council 'tax dodge' claims	Link
18/02/2017	Cambridge News	Councillor says sorry for housing 'tax dodge' claims	P10
18/02/2017	Cambridge News	Delay over bus lanes decision (City Deal)	P14
19/02/2017	Cambridge News online	Hildersham residents seek investors to help buy and re-open Pear Tree pub	link
20/02/2017	Cambridge News	Villagers seek funds to buy back lost pub	P8
21/02/2017	Cambridge News	Setting sights on our 'smart city' in 2050 (City Deal)	P6

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 17 February 2017: ITV Online: Rubbish disposal fees could be spurring fly-tipping

Rubbish disposal fees charged by council dumps could be spurring on Britain’s fly-tipping problem, according to those living in affected areas.

Tuesday 21 February 2017: Guardian: Council funding freeze “means cuts to many essential services”

The Chairman of the LGA has warned that councils will need to cut a range of services after ministers released a funding settlement for councils that offered no additional money during 2017/18.

Tuesday 21 February 2017: Telegraph: Business rates blow to be “softened” in the Budget

Philip Hammond has indicated that he is prepared to take measures in the Budget to help those worst affected by the business rates rise.

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 15 FEBRUARY 2017

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’.

Proposed Fees and Charges for Health and Environmental Services 2017/18

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The Environmental Services Portfolio Holder

AGREED

A) The fees and charges as set out in appendix 1 of the report, with the amendment of the maximum charge for the Serving of Improvement Notices Under the Housing Act 2004 to £550.

B) The fees and charges for the Commercial Waste Service, as laid out in the report.

This decision was first published on Thursday 16 February and so the deadline for call-in is Thursday 23 February at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 24 February.

Active and Healthy for Life

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The Environmental Services Portfolio Holder

AGREED

A) That Cottenham centre remain on review to give them opportunity to improve with a new manager.

B) That Cambourne centre remain on review to see if future development plans can capitalise on the potential of this centre.

C) To support the future long term vision for the A&H4L scheme.

D) To support the aims for 2017/2018 financial year.

This decision was first published on Thursday 16 February and so the deadline for call-in is Thursday 23 February at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 24 February.

Responding to East Cambridgeshire District Council's public consultation on the "East Cambridgeshire Local Plan: Further Draft - January 2017" PDF 254 KB

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The Planning Portfolio Holder

AGREED To submit the Proposed Response (included in the attached Appendix 1) to ECDC in response to their consultation on “East Cambridgeshire Local Plan: Further Draft – January 2017”

DECISIONS MADE BY OFFICERS AND REPORTED FOR INFORMATION

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

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