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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 11 October 2017 12.00 p.m.

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

Items

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Item

Meetings and events from Thursday 12 October to Friday 27 October

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 12 Oct	10am	Health & Wellbeing Portfolio Holder Meeting	Jeavons Room	Patrick Adams
Fri 13 Oct

Mon 16 Oct
Tue 17 Oct	6pm	Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder’s Meeting	Swansley Room	Ian Senior
Wed 18 Oct	3:30pm	Housing Portfolio Holder’s Meeting	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Thu 19 Oct
Fri 20 Oct


Mon 23 Oct
Tue 24 Oct
Wed 25 Oct	10:00am	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority	East Cambs District Council	County Council
Thu 26 Oct
Fri 27 Oct	10am	Licensing Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon - planned closures PDF 563 KB

Below are details of this week’s planned closures, as part of our A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

Our official diversion route will be signposted and I’ve attached diversion maps for the A1 and A14 closures. We also have variable message signs in place that will advise drivers of the upcoming closures.

We regularly update details of closures specific to our A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme on our Facebook #A14C2H and Twitter @A14C2H pages. You can also find our latest posts by searching #A14C2Hclosures.

PLEASE NOTE - closures may be subject to change, so check out our social media pages daily for updates.

This week’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon closures;

Mon 9th to Fri 13th

A1 northbound between Buckden & Alconbury (each night, 9pm - 6am)

Mon 9th to Tues 10th

A14 eastbound between St Ives (J26) and Girton (J31), (each night, 9pm - 6am)

A1307 inbound towards Cambridge, (each night, 9pm - 6am)

Wed 11th for one night

A14 westbound exit slip road at Dry Drayton (J30), (9pm - 6am)

Wed 11th to Fri 13th

A1 southbound between Alconbury & Brampton (each night, 9pm - 6am)

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.

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

Additional documents:

A1 Diversion for closures between Buckden to Brampton Hut3 , item 2. PDF 641 KB

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

04/10/2017	Cambridge news	Up to 50 traveller families on official site waiting list	P8
04/10/2017	Cambridge Independent	Finding primary power in the bathroom recycling regime	P5
04/10/2017	Cambridge Independent	Paper caddy removal in December	P15
04/10/2017	Cambridge Independent	£2million funding bid to bring more shops to Cambourne	P21
04/10/2017	Cambridge Independent	£50,000 rural buses pledge	P21
05/10/2017	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cllr Lynda Harford interviewed about additional funding pot for new council homes following Government announcement
05/01/2017	Government Business	South Cambs paper caddies to be removed	link
05/10/2017	Cambridge Independent	South Cambridgeshire welcomes Theresa May's £2billion housing fund	Link
05/10/2017	Star Radio Online	£2 billion housing pot could help deliver thousands of new affordable homes.	Link
06/10/2017	Star Radio Online	First family handed houses keys under Council leasing scheme	Link
09/10/2017	Cambridge News	Unlicensed driver took taxi fares illegally for weeks around Cambridge area	Link
09/10/2017	Star Radio Online	Reminder around taxi licensing issued after driver prosecuted	Link
10/10/2017	Cambridge News	Taxi driver fined for not having a licence	P15
10/10/2017	Star Radio Online	Run and talk to focus on mental health	Link
10/10/2017	Star Radio Online	Call for community hero nominations	Link

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.

Thursday 5 October: BBC Online: Theresa May announces £2bn for council homes expansion

Theresa May has announced plans to spend £2 billion on a “new generation” of council houses and affordable homes for rent.

Saturday 7 October: Guardian: Opinion: The housing crisis

In a Public Leaders Network article, Alice Martin from the New Economics Foundation argues that to tackle the housing crisis the Government needs to stop selling off public land so more houses can be built.

Sunday 8 October: Observer: Hammond urged to scrap benefit cap as 1 million face homelessness

Chancellor Philip Hammond faces calls to scrap the cap on housing benefit in the Autumn Budget in order to fix the “broken” housing market.

Tuesday 10 October: BBC Online: Minister to review law on illegal Gypsy and traveller sites

The Government is to review the effectiveness of laws aimed at tackling illegal encampments set up by Travellers and Gypsies.

Wednesday 11 October: Guardian: Plastic bottle deposit return scheme could save England’s council’s £35 million a year

If the Government introduced a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles, councils could save up to £35 million a year, according to a new report, commissioned by groups including Keep Britain Tidy, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, and others, published today.

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 4 OCTOBER 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’.

BT Telephone Box Removal

View the background to item 6.

The Planning Portfolio Holder

AGREED to consult on the removal of telephone kiosks at High Street, Graveley and Abbotsley Road, Croxton.

This decision was first taken on Friday 6 October and so the deadline for call-in is Friday 13 October at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Monday 23 October.

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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