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Attached is our latest A14 Parish Bulletin, covering August and September.

This bulletin is intended to provide you with updates on key site activities on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, so please feel free to circulate the information in your own newsletters or on your parish websites.

You may have noticed over the last few editions of this newsletter that we’ve delivered news by activity rather than by each section of the scheme independently.

We’re always looking at the best way to provide you this information and we’d appreciate your feedback on which format your prefer; news by activities or section by section.

We’ll adapt the way we write to you depending on the majority’s preference, so please do get in touch.

To contact your sections Stakeholder Manager, please use the email addresses below or our A14 helpline.

Section 1 & 2Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line; Jon Lewell jon.lewell@thea14.com

Section 3 East Coast Main Line to Swavesey; Jade Pettit jade.pettit@thea14.com

Section 4 & 5 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 Improvement Scheme

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

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

On September 12^th the Housing team at South Cambs will be launching a new community-led housing initiative.

DCLG’s Community Housing Fund recently awarded both South Cambs District Council and Cambridge City Council just over £50,000 each in grant funding to help boost the provision of affordable homes delivered by community-led housing groups. The two Councils have decided to pool their funds and embark upon a year-long pilot of advice, support and funding for community groups to kick start their housing ambitions.

At the Parish Forum on September 12^th details of how community-led housing groups can apply, on a competitive basis, to the Council for up to £4,500 in grant funding will be released. This funding is intended to help communities to develop their ideas for community-led housing, explore opportunities in their local area and form a legally recognised entity in order to further their plans.

For more information please contact Emily Mulvaney at emily@clteast.org or on 01353 668985 or 07766 991145

Thursday 31 August: Independent Online: £1 billion of taxpayers’ money subsidises planning applications

£1 billion of taxpayers’ money will have subsidised planning applications by 2022, according to LGA research.

Friday 1 September: BBC Online: Birmingham bin strike threat

Refuse workers in Birmingham have warned they will resume industrial action after accusing the city council of reneging on deal that saw the previous lengthy bin strike suspended.

Sunday 3 September: Telegraph: “Ugly new homes will create more NIMBYs” warns Environment Committee Chair

Inappropriate buildings being imposes on local communities by the Government will create a generation of NIMBYs, the Chairman of the Environment Select Committee, Neil Parish has warned.

Sunday 3 September: BBC Online: £200m to help rural areas get connected

The Government has announced some of the first pilot areas to benefit from a £200m fund to help rural hospitals, schools and businesses benefit from “full fibre” faster broadband.

Monday 4 September: Guardian: May urged to back bold action on housing crisis

The Department for Communities and Local Government has confirmed that it will publish details, by the end of this month, on how local authorities should assess the need for housing in their local area.

Tuesday 5 September: Telegraph: Councils face ban on using ASBO laws to punish bin breaches

The Government is preparing to publish a consultation paper that will issue enforcement guidance for councils using bin fines, according to Whitehall sources.

Wednesday 6 September: Telegraph Online: Fees and charges

The TaxPayers’ Alliance has raised concerns about local authorities requiring people to pay for services on top of the council tax they already pay.

Wednesday 6 September: Times: Dog walkers told to carry two plastic bags

Canterbury City Council has warned dog walkers who fail to carry two plastic bags for collecting their pet’s mess face and £80 fine.

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’. 

The Planning Portfolio Holder agreed  that a consultation response be submitted based upon paragraphs 18-25 of this report.

This decision was first published on Thursday 31 August and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 7 September. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 8 September.

The Planning Portfolio Holder agreed that a consultation response be submitted based upon the following:

“Huntingdonshire are consulting on their draft Local Plan between the 4^th July and 4.30pm on the 25^th August. They intend to consult again in late 2017 on a Proposed Submission Local Plan and submit their plan for examination in March 2018. The plan includes strategic scale developments at Alconbury to the north of Huntingdon and at St Neots East. The plan proposes sites to meet all of the objectively assessed housing need in the district. Overall its draft policies and proposals are considered to be an appropriate response to the planning challenges affecting Huntingdonshire insofar as it affects South Cambridgeshire. The plan is also considered to be consistent with the agreed duty to cooperate documents relating to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area.” (paragraph 10 of the report)

This decision was first published on Thursday 31 August and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 7 September. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 8 September.

The Planning Portfolio Holder agreed that a consultation response be submitted on the draft Uttlesford Local Plan based upon paragraphs 15-35 of this report, taking account of agreed modifications and additions concerning transport,  the North Uttlesford Garden Community start date, build-out rates, water supply and disposal, and ‘rat running’.

This decision was first published on Thursday 31 August and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 7 September. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 8 September.

The Planning Portfolio Holder approved the designation of a Neighbourhood Area for the parish of Thriplow as proposed by Thriplow Parish Council (see Appendix A).

This decision was first published on Thursday 31 August and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 7 September. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 8 September.

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