Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12.00 p.m.

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 1 February to Friday 16 February 2018

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 1 Feb

Fri 2 Feb

Mon 5 Feb

Tue 6 Feb

2pm

 

 

 

6pm

Business & Customer Services Portfolio Holder – POSTPONED TO 20/3/18

 

Scrutiny & Overview Committee

 

 

 

 

Swansley Room

 

 

 

 

Victoria Wallace

Wed 7 Feb

10:30am

 

2pm

Planning Committee

 

Cabinet

Council Chamber

 

Swansley Room

Ian Senior

 

Kathrin John

Thu 8 Feb

2pm

 

4pm

Cabinet – MOVED to Wednesday 7 February

Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board

 

 

Council Chamber

 

 

Kathrin John

Fri 9 Feb

 

Mon 12 Feb

Tue 13 Feb

10am

 

Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee

Swansley Room A

Patrick Adams

Wed 14 Feb

Thu 15 Feb

Fri 16 Feb

 

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

2.

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Closures

Below are this week’s planned closures as notified by Highways England:

 

This week’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon closures;

 

Mon 29 to Fri 2

A1 northbound Brampton Hut exit slip (each night 9pm - 6am)

A14 eastbound Histon (J32) exit slip (each night 9pm - 6am)

 

Mon 29 to Tue 30

A14 eastbound St Ives (J26) to Girton (J31), including A1307 inbound (each night 9pm-6am)

 

Wed 31 for one night

Full closure Bar Hill overbridge, for vegetation clearance (9pm - 6am)

 

Wed 31 to Fri 2

Full closure A1307, outbound towards A14 (each night 9pm-6am)

 

We regularly update details of closures specific to our A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme on our Facebook (www.facebook.com/a14c2h) and Twitter (@A14C2H) pages. You can also find our latest posts by searching #A14C2Hclosures.

 

Our official diversion route will be signposted and you can find diversion maps on our social media pages (or just email us for additional copies).

 

For questions about our A14C2H closures or scheme, just email A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk. For updates or information about closures not related to our scheme email info@highwaysengland.co.uk or call 0300 123 5000.

 

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

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

 

Section 1 & 2:Alconbury 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.

GENERAL INFORMATION

3.

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

25/01/2018

Star Radio Online

"Stringent" new taxi licensing policy recommended for adoption

Link

 

25/01/2018

BBC News Online

New rules for South Cambs taxi drivers hoping for green light

Link

 

25/01/2018

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Mark Howell interviewed about proposed new taxi licensing policy

Scroll to 1h 20in

 

25/01/2018

Royston Crow Online

Proposed reforms to South Cambs taxis include more CCTV and wheelchair accessible vehicles

Link

 

26/01/2018

Cambridge News Online

Why CCTV cameras are set to film you in the back of a taxi

Link

 

26/01/2018

ITV Anglia News

Launch of Metal Matters campaign

N/A

 

26/01/2018

BBC Look East

Launch of Metal Matters campaign

N/A

 

26/01/2018

Heart Radio Bulletins

Launch of Metal Matters campaign

N/A

In Drive Time bulletins

26/01/2018

Cambridge Independent Online

Metal Matters drive seeks to boost recycling rates in Greater Cambridge

Link

 

27/01/2018

Cambridge Independent Online

Petition raises concerns against waste incinerator plan

Link

Cllr Ingrid Tregoing quoted

28/01/2018

Cambridge Independent Online

Land trust to build homes for villagers in Cottenham

Link

 

29/01/2018

Cambridge Network Online

Council innovation and £1.7 million income set to offset cuts to funding

Link

 

29/01/2018

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Simon Edwards interviewed on drive time about budget

Scroll to 1h 7m in

 

30/01/2018

Cambridge News

We've got 'skin in the game' of AgriTech project

P18

Article about plans for AgriTech park at Hinxton

30/01/2018

Cambridge News Online

Will new park put Cambridge on global AgriTech map?

Link

Article about plans for AgriTech park at Hinxton

30/01/2018

That's Cambridge TV

Cambridgeshire officials campaign to get residents to recycle more metal

Link

 

31/01/2018

Cambridge News

Proposals for underground bus station in city centre (Combined Authority)

P4

 

 

4.

Items of Interest from the Local Government Association (LGA)

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 January: BBC Online: Rough sleeping in England rises for seventh year

There were 4,751 people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough in autumn 2017, a 15 per cent rise on the year before and more than double the figure recorded five years ago.

 

Saturday 27 January: Guardian: “Building more homes won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis”

Ann Pettifor, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, argues that inflation property prices are the cause of the housing crisis and says building more homes is not the answer.

 

Sunday 28 January: Sunday Telegraph: Majority of householders face council tax increases

LGA Chairman Lord Porter has warned council tax rises of up to 6 per cent this year will not bring in enough money to plug the growing funding gap facing councils.

 

Monday 29 January: Sky News Online: Sixteen and 17-year-olds to vote in Wales local elections

At the 2022 local elections, sixteen and seventeen year olds will be given the right to vote in Wales.

 

Tuesday 30 January: Independent Online: Taxi licences ‘given to drivers with violent criminal convictions’

Taxi and private hire vehicle licences have been granted to drivers with criminal convictions, including some for violent offences, a report by personal safety charity the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has claimed.

 

Wednesday 31 January: Times: House developers face losing right to build

Housing developers could lose planning permission on unused land if they fail to meet construction targets under moves to kick-start housing building.

 

Wednesday 31 January: Huffington Post: 150,000 social rent homes gone

More than 150,000 homes for social rent have disappeared in the last five years.

5.

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 JANUARY 2018

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’

6.

Elite Athlete Award Scheme - Equestrian Award

The Environmental Services Portfolio Holder

 

AGREED        to award an Elite Athlete grant of £750 to support the applicant from Gamlingay at the level recommended by the Panel.

 

This decision was first published on Thursday 25 January and so the deadline for call-in is Thursday 1 February at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 2 February.

7.

Community Chest Grant

The Finance and Staffing Portfolio Holder

 

AGREED to award the following grants:

Name of applicant

Project description

Total cost of project (£)

Total awarded (£)

Comberton Crusaders Football Club

Purchase of a storage container for match equipment

4,000.00

    547.28

Haslingfield Parish Council

Repairs to equipment in the skate park

1,742.00

 1,000.00

Little Shelford Parish Council

Repair of a viewing platform on the river walk

    860.00

    860.00

 

This decision was first published on Tuesday 30 January and so the deadline for call-in is Tuesday 6 February at 5pm. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Wednesday 7 February.

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

8.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

Agendas

·                      Scrutiny & Overview Committee 6 Feb

·                      Cabinet 7 Feb

·                      Planning Committee 7 Feb

·                      Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board 8 Feb

 

Decisions

·                      Elite Athlete Award Scheme – Equestrian Award

·                      Community Chest Grants

 

 

9.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

Staff who have left/will be leaving

 

Name: Lewis Carter

Job title: Refuse Driver

Date leaving: 12 February 2018

 

Name: Jonathan Myers

Job title: Accountancy Assistant

Date leaving: 18 February 2018