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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 21 June 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 22 June to Friday 7 July 2017

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 22 Jun	10am 3pm	Civic Affairs Committee Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee	Council Chamber Mezzanine	Victoria Wallace (minutes) Victoria Wallace
Fri 23 Jun

Mon 26 Jun
Tue 27 Jun	10am	Planning Portfolio Holder – CANCELLED
Wed 28 Jun	10am	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority	East Cambs	County Council
Thu 29 Jun
Fri 30 Jun	9:30am	Audit & Corporate Governance Committee	Monkfield Room	Patrick Adams


Mon 3 Jul
Tue 4 Jul
Wed 5 Jul	10:30am	Planning Committee	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Thu 6 Jul	6pm	Scrutiny & Overview Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Fri 7 Jul

INFORMATION FOR PARISH COUNCILS AND DISTRICT COUNCILLORS

A14 Monthly Parish Council Bulletin PDF 1 MB

Attached is the latest A14 Monthly Parish Council Bulletin, which is intended to provide you with regular updates on key site activities, and which you can also use for information to put on your parish website or in your newsletter.

To contact your particular Stakeholder Manager please use the email addresses below or our helpline.

Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line; Jon Lewell jon.lewell@thea14.com

East Coast Main Line to Swavesey; Jade Pettit jade.pettit@thea14.com

Swavesey to Milton; Bob Pettipher bob.pettipher@thea14.com

A14 helpline 0800 270 0114 - This will be answered by a team member during site hours 8am - 5pm and messages can be left at other times.

Kind regards

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Team

Highways England | Woodlands | Manton Lane | Bedford | MK41 7LW

Web: http://www.highways.gov.uk

Local Government Information Unit (LGIU): C'llr Achievement Awards 2017

The nominations for the Local Government Information Unit’s annual C’llr Achievement awards are now open.

The Categories are:

Leader of the Year

Community Champion

Young Councillor of the Year

iESE’s Finance and Transformation Awards

Mears Group’s Health and Care Award

Technology and Digital Award

Place-shaping and Environment Award

To nominate a councillor, click on the following link:

http://www.lgiu.org.uk/project/lgiu-cllr-awards-2017/

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.

Personal Safety Training at City Council: Tue 4 July 6:30pm

Cambridge City Council are running a course on Personal Safety by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on Tuesday 4 July from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

This course will cover the following topics:

· Lone working

· Tracking systems

· Home visits

· Travelling safely

· Running safer surgeries and being out on the frontline

· Recognising early warning signs of aggression

If you would like to attend this training, please contact Patrick Adams 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

16/06/2017	Grantham Journal	New chief executive takes over at South Kesteven District Council	Link
16/06/2017	Cambridge News	Revised Milton road scheme simply not suitable - readers (City Deal)	P12
19/06/2017	Cambridge News	City Deal has made “pig's ear” of Milton road junction plans	P17
19/06/2017	Grantham Journal online	‘Exciting time to join council’ says new chief executive of South Kesteven District Council	Link
20/06/2017	Cambridge News	Long term part closure for Hills Road (City Deal)	P4

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.

Monday 19 June: Telegraph: Philip Hammond hints at end to council spending cuts

Philip Hammond has hinted the Government could raise taxes over the course of the next parliament in a bid to ease years of austerity.

Wednesday 21 June: Independent online: New Social housing falls by almost 100%

The number of new government-funded houses built for social rent each year has fallen by 97% since 2010, official statistics have shown.

Wednesday 21 June: Telegraph: Roads melting in the heat

Gritters have been deployed to shore up roads as they melted in surface temperatures of 104F. Cambridgeshire County Council acted after motorists complained that their tyres had started ripping the tarmac off the roads.

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 14 JUNE 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’.

Extension TPC for Response Repairs, Voids and Packaged Works