Information
PDF 486 KBContact: Patrick Adams 01954 713408 Email: democratic.services@scambs.gov.uk
| No. | Item | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Meetings and events from 9 March to 24 March 2017
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Deadline for Expenses Claims for 2016/17 Please note that the deadline for Members’ expenses for 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 is: 9am on Monday 3 April
This is to allow the accounts to be closed in accordance with the timescales set by the Government. Please contact Patrick Adams for further details. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS & PARISH COUNCILS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Community Safety Summit 18 March 2017 The Police are hosting a Community Safety Summit at the District Council’s offices on Saturday 18 March. Please find a poster attached. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
ACV Update - Black Horse in Dry Drayton On Monday 6 March 2017, the Council received notification of intention to sell from the Owners of The Black Horse, 35 Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8DA
The sale has now entered the interim moratorium period of six weeks, to give any community group the opportunity to submit an intention to bid. The interim moratorium will close at midnight on 17 April 2017.
For further information see www.scambs.gov.uk/community-right-bid |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Monthly Bulletin Please find attached the latest A14 Bulletin. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme Highways England started a consultation on options to improve the A428 between the Black Cat roundabout and the Caxton Gibbet roundabout. There is a questionnaire that can be filled out online.
They are consulting on three options to provide a new dual carriageway between Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet which will be built away from the current alignment of the existing A428. Highways England are also proposing options to improve the junctions at Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet. The consultation brochure contains information about the options being proposed.
The deadline for comments is 23 April 2017.
There are a number of exhibitions been held during the consultation where you can speak to Highways England’s team about the proposals (see the consultation brochure for details). Additional documents: |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Housing Market Bulletin - March 2017 Please find attached March’s edition of the Housing Market Bulletin, which keeps track of local, regional and national housing market signals to December 2016. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
GENERAL INFORMATION |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Media Monitoring
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Items of Interest from the Local Government Association (LGA)
Thursday 2 March: Radio 4 Money Box: Business rates – time for reform? The link above will take you to a 30 minute recording of Radio 4’s Money Box programme where Cllr John Fuller, Vice Chairman of the LGA’s Resources Board explains the ongoing risk of business rate appeals to councils.
Friday 3 March: Guardian: Rise in fly-tipping results in £50 million clearance bill New figures show that councils had to spend nearly £50 million clearing more than 900,000 cases of fly-tipping in England last year.
Friday 3 March: BBC Online: Business Rates: Sajid Javid considers rates discount plan Plans to help nearly 100,000 small businesses due to be hit by changes to business rates next month are being considered by Communities Secretary Sajid Javid.
Sunday 5 March: Observer: Benefit freeze leaves families facing steep rent rise or eviction Families who rely on state help to pay their rent will have to find hundreds of pounds extra every month to avoid eviction because of the Government’s freeze on housing benefit, it is claimed.
Sunday 5 March: Guardian: Campaigners call for land ministry to halt the ‘erosion of the countryside’ The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) has called for a new “department of land use” to prevent “piecemeal erosion of the countryside” caused by a lack of joined-up thinking in Government.
Tuesday 7 March: Guardian: Rethink rates now or face retail disaster, shops tell Chancellor Britain’s hard-pressed retailers have urged the Chancellor to rethink government plans for revamping business rates amid signs that rising inflation has led to the weakest high street spending in more than five years.
Tuesday 7 March: Guardian: Councils are facing bankruptcy – is this the end of public service? Columnist Peter Wilby argues that the abiding problem of local government in Britain is that nobody wants to pay for it.
Wednesday 8 March: Times: Snail farms and balloons help landlords avoid business rates Landlords are exploiting legal loopholes to escape paying business rates at a cost to councils of £230 million a year, experts have claimed. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
View Planning Applications
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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: |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
OTHER INFORMATION |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Newly-Published Items on modern.gov |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
SCDC Starters and Leavers
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
