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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 31 May 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 1 June to Friday 15 June

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 1 Jun
Fri 2 Jun

Mon 5 Jun
Tue 6 Jun
Wed 7 Jun	10:30am 2pm	Planning Committee – Postponed to 19 June Greater Cambridge City Deal Assembly – Cancelled
Thu 8 Jun		General Election
Fri 9 Jun


Mon 12 Jun
Tue 13 Jun
Wed 14 Jun
Thu 15 Jun	4pm	Greater Cambridge City Deal Board - Cancelled
Fri 16 Jun

UPCOMING DISTRICT COUNCILLOR TRAINING

Unless otherwise specified, please confirm your availability to attend any of the following briefing or training events by contacting Patrick Adams on 01954 713408. This will ensure your training records are kept up to date and suitable venue and catering booking can be made. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Licensing Training at Cambridge City Council on Mon 12 June

For the special attention of those who will be members of the Licensing Committee for the 2017/18 municipal year

Cambridge City Council are hosting an all day licensing training course on Monday 12 June.

If you would like to attend this course, please contact me: patrick.adams@scambs.gov.uk

(01954) 713408

Safeguarding Through Licensing: Mon 10 July at SCDC

This training is vitally important for any councillors wishing to serve on Licensing Panels for the 2017/18 municipal year

The Council are hosting an all day licensing training course at South Cambs Hall in Cambourne on Monday 10 July.

The course objectives: To provide a forum for discussion and learning amongst key stakeholders in relation to safeguarding issues around children and other vulnerable people where licensing can make a difference. These events will look at lessons to be learned as well as examining successful and emerging initiatives involving all partners with a role in protecting children and vulnerable adults.
This event is aimed at local authority officers, police officers, social services and all who are involved in the safeguarding of vulnerable persons. The Institute of Licensing accredits this event at 5 hours CPD.

If you would like to attend this course, please contact me: patrick.adams@scambs.gov.uk

(01954) 713408

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

24/05/2017	Cambridge Independent	Zettlex sensors in space praised by council leader	P2
25/05/2017	Cambridge News	Villagers in protest over sports ground expansion	P8
25/05/2017	Star Radio Online	One month to go to South Cambridgeshire’s biggest free family fun day	Link
27/05/2017	Cambridge News online	Sex offenders, child abusers and dangerous drivers have applied to be taxi drivers in Cambridge	Link
30/05/2017	Cambridge News	Tunnels could bring buses into city centre (Combined Authority)	P2
31/05/2017	Cambridge News	Sex offenders tried to become taxi drivers	P14
31/05/2017	Cambridge News	Mixed reaction to buses tunnel (combined authority)	P16

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 26 May: BBC News online: Housing building increase

A total of £162,880 homes were started in 2016/17, with 147,960 completed, according to latest figures.

Tuesday 30 May: BBC News online: Business Rates

The Department for Communities and Local Government has written to local authority chief financial officers in England with guidance as to how the business rates tax relief funding should be distributed.

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 24 MAY 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’.

Sale of Land adjacent (East) of Number 6 Blacksmiths Close, Babraham CB22 3AH

View the background to item 7.

The Housing Portfolio Holder AGREED to sell HRA owned land adjacent of number 6 Blacksmiths Close, Babraham, as the capital receipt will go directly into HRA for funding our affordable council new build housing.

This decision was first published on Friday 26 May and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Monday 5 June (a day later than usual due to the bank holiday.) If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Tuesday 6 June.

Northstowe Phase 1 Allotment Land and Orchard Land

View the background to item 8.

The Strategic Planning Portfolio Holder AGREED to the transfer of allotment land and orchard land from Gallagher to South Cambridgeshire District Council.

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

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