Agenda

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thu 14 June to Fri 29 June 2018

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 14 Jun

2pm

Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly

Guildhall, Cambridge

Democratic Services

Fri 15 Jun

Mon 18 Jun

Tue 19 Jun

6pm

Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder - CANCELLED

Wed 20 Jun

6:30-

8pm

Cabinet & Parish Liaison Meeting

Council Chamber

Gemma Barron

Thu 21 Jun

10am

Grants Advisory Committee

Mezzanine

Ian Senior

 

6pm

Scrutiny & Overview Committee

Swansley Room

Victoria Wallace

Fri 22 Jun

 

Mon 25 Jun

11am

Licensing Committee

Swansley Room

Victoria Wallace

Tue 26 Jun

10am

Civic Affairs Committee

Swansley Room

Patrick Adams

Wed 27 Jun

Thu 28 Jun

9:30am

Cabinet

Swansley Room

Victoria Wallace

Fri 29 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.

2.

Introduction to Overview and Scrutiny on 21 June at 2pm

Course: Introduction to Overview and Scrutiny

Date: Thursday 21 June

Time: 2pm to 5pm

Venue: Council Chamber at South Cambs Hall, Cambourne

 

This course is being run by Paul Cutler from the Centre for Public Scrutiny. It is for all Scrutiny and Overview Committee members and substitutes and will focus on the functions of the Scrutiny and Overview process. The training is scheduled to take place before the first meeting of the Scrutiny and Overview Committee at 6pm on the same day.

3.

Member Development Day on Friday 22 June (all day)

Four courses:

9am to 11am:              Casework & Community Advocacy

11:30am to 1:30pm:    Managing Difficult People

1:45pm to 3:45pm:      Safe & Confident Use of Social Media

4pm to 6pm:                Chairing Skills

 

These courses are being run by David McGrath of Link Support Services. Members do not have to attend the whole day but can pick slots that are convenient to them. These courses will be held again on Monday 30 July.

4.

Mock Licensing Hearings on 25 June - After the Licensing Committee meeting

Course: Mock Licensing Hearings

Date: Monday 25 June

Time: Afternoon (after Licensing Committee meeting)

Venue: Swansley Room, South Cambs Hall, Cambourne

 

For members of the Licensing Committee to provide experience of sitting on three member panels that determine licensing applications relating to taxi drivers and various premises.

GENERAL INFORMATION

5.

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

06/06/2018

Cambridge News

Delay to decision over busway link

P1 & P6

Cllr Aidan van de Weyer quoted regarding Cambridge to Cambourne busway

06/06/2018

Cambridge News online

The Cambridge to Cambourne busway has been put on hold and this is why

Link

Cllr Aidan van de Weyer quoted regarding Cambridge to Cambourne busway

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Waterbeach plan will focus on the people, not cars

P6

RLW submits outline planning application for Waterbeach new town east to SCDC

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Stop squabbling or funding will dry up, warns new leader

P8

Cllr Bridget Smith quoted regarding GCP / CA disagreements

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Biomedical campus 'will hit gridlock before metro arrives'

P9

Cllr Bridget Smith quoted regarding Biomedical campus transport issues

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Tributes paid to a former council leader

P11

 

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Almost £60k in fines handed out for planning breaches at travellers site

P25

 

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Column: We'll put environment first

P30

Cllr Bridget Smith's first column for the paper

06/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Planning roadshow details

P33

 

07/06/2018

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Bridget Smith and Topping interviewed on governance and transport debate for Cambridgeshire

 

 

07/06/2018

Cambridge News online

How South Cambridgeshire could stop travellers camping in public places

Link

 

08/06/2018

Cambridge News online

A huge group of traveller caravans has pitched up in Cambourne

Link

 

09/06/2018

Cambridge News online

A group of travellers have invaded a St Neots park (also mentions Cambourne and SCDC)

Link

 

10/06/2018

Cambridge Independent online

Inside Waterbeach’s new town: How developers will focus on people instead of cars

Link

 

11/06/2018

Cambridge News

Travellers set up camp on parkland (mentions Cambourne)

P2

 

12/06/2018

Cambridge News

Road closure has seen us lose 30 per cent in trade'

P7

Cllr Alexandra Malyon quoted in article about closure of Longstanton Airfield road

12/06/2018

Parliamentary Radio.com

Cllr Bridget Smith interviewed by Boni Sones

Link

Focusses on election campaign

12/06/2018

Horticulture Week Online

Oakington Garden Centre wins planning consent for development

Link

 

13/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Can sociable streets compete with car convenience?

P4

Article about consultation into RLW Waterbeach plans. Cllr Van de Weyer quoted

13/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Top tips for recycling

P8

Plastic recycling advice taken from latest South Cambs Magazine

13/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

Pause to Park & Rides threatens 'vital' local plans

P18

Cllr Bridget Smith quoted about call-in of Mayor's interim transport plan

13/06/2018

Cambridge Independent

New busway route deferred

P22

Cllr Aidan Ven de Weyer quoted about pause of Cambourne to Cambridge busway scheme

 

6.

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 8 June 2018: Guardian: Public Sector Pension Funds “put millions in tax-haven funded” PFIs

English public sector pension funds have invested hundreds of millions of pounds in Scottish private finance schemes linked to offshore tax havens, according to analysis by the Guardian.

 

Saturday 9 June 2018: BBC Online: More than a million on social housing waiting lists

More than 1.15 million households are stuck on social housing waiting lists in England, according to a report by Shelter.

 

Monday 11 June 2018: Guardian: Councils able to replace just one-third of homes sold under right to buy

The LGA is warning that the Government’s right-to-buy scheme risks running out of homes unless councils are given funding to build more.

 

Wednesday 13 June 2018: Times: Sir William Worsley appointed as “Tree Champion”

The Government will today appoint Sir William Worsley as the Government’s new “Tree Champion” with the responsibility for “supporting the introduction of a new duty for local councils to consult before felling.”

 

7.

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 WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 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’

8.

Community Led Housing Grant Application

The Leader and Housing Portfolio Holder

 

AGREED        To approve a community-led development grant fund of £4,500 to Great Shelford Parochial Charities.

 

This decision was published on Wednesday 13 June and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 20 June. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Thursday 21 June.

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

9.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

 

 

Agendas

·                      Licensing Committee 25 June

 

Decisions

·                      Planning Committee 6 June

·                      Community Led Housing Grant Application

 

Plans

·                      Forward Plan of Key Decisions

 

Issues

·                      Shared Services Annual Report

·                      Crime & Reduction Partnership Local Policing Review

·                      Response to consultation on new minerals and waste local plan

·                      Update on Community Involvement Planning Matters

·                      Waterbeach New Town – Supplementary Planning Document

·                      Response to Uttlesford Local Plan

·                      Compulsory Purchase Order of The Tree, Stapleford

·                      Cambourne, High Street

 

 

10.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

New Employees at the Council

 

Name: Pedro Fortes

Job title: Refuse Loader

Date started: 6 June 2018

 

Name: Joel Howlett

Job title: Refuse Loader

Date started: 6 June 2018

 

Name: Elissa Payne

Job title: Asset Management Apprentice

Date started: 6 June 2018

 

 

Staff who have left

 

Name: Tyevia Gould

Job title: Surveyor (Response Maintenance)

Date leaving: 29 June 2018