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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 1 August 2018 12.00 p.m.

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

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Meetings and events from Thursday 2 August to Friday 17 August

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 2 Aug
Fri 3 Aug

Mon 6 Aug
Tue 7 Aug
Wed 8 Aug	10:30am	Planning Committee – POSTPONED TO 16 AUGUST
Thu 9 Aug
Fri 10 Aug


Mon 13 Aug
Tue 14 Aug	6pm	Scrutiny & Overview Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Wed 15 Aug
Thu 16 Aug	2pm	Planning Committee	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Fri 17 Aug

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS & PARISH COUNCILS

Planned Road Closures this Week: A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme PDF 377 KB

Please find attached road closures information for this week.

To contact your A14 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

A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk

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.

Further updates as the scheme progresses can be found on our website.

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

25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	New Park & Ride sites	P1 & P6	CA / GCP article
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	We don’t want city to swallow up our villages'	P6 & P7	Cllr Tumi Hawkins quoted
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	Calls for group to investigate Brexit	P7
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	Lack of transit sites 'unforgivable'	P7
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	Motion to oppose city congestion charging is voted down	P15
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	Something more visionary' needed for Coton, says Griff	P15	CA / GCP article. Remarks from Cambridge graduate Griff Rhys Jones on Cambourne busway
25/07/2018	Cambridge Independent	New plans are promised for lakes complex	P19
25/07/2018	Royston Crow online	Calls for Brexit task force in South Cambs	Link
26/07/2018	BBC Look East	Cllr Pippa Heylings speaks about Council's solar energy position	Scroll to 4 mins in	Featured as part of round-up of how local Councils are benefiting from solar energy
26/07/2018	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cllr Pippa Heylings interviewed about Council's solar energy plans	Scroll to 50m in
26/07/2018	Cambridge News	Four temporary park and ride sites planned for city	P3	CA /GCP article with Cllr Bridget Smith quoted
26/07/2018	Cambridge Independent Online	New plans promised for Cambridge Sport Lakes complex	Link
26/07/2018	Royston Crow online	Help your South Cambs bin crews during the heatwave	Link
26/07/2018	Cambridge News online	Waitrose worker's fury after Stagecoach cancels bus service because she is only passenger	Link	Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted
27/07/2018	Cambridge News	Loss of 26 bus service means I may have to move'	P11	Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted
27/07/2018	Cambridge News	New town to take shape with addition of focal point	P17	Cllr Hazel Smith quoted about start of construction of Northstowe phase 2
27/07/2018	Cambridge News online	Four new park and ride sites to be built around Cambridge	Link	GCP article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted
27/07/2018	Cambridge News online	Building work for more than 3,500 new homes and a town centre begins in Cambridgeshire	Link	Cllr Hazel Smith quoted about start of construction of Northstowe phase 2
27/07/2018	Landscape Insight Online	Chris Blandford Associates sees Northstowe healthy town strategy approved	Link
29/07/2018	Cambridge Independent online	We don't want Cambridge to swallow up our villages'	Link	Cllr Tumi Hawkins quoted
29/07/2018	Cambridge News online	Meet the homeless Cambridgeshire army veteran living in a shed during the heatwave	Link
30/07/2018	Cambridge News	Former soldier living in a shed	P1 & P5
30/07/2018	The Sun Online	Homeless army vet forced to live in allotment shed during heatwave because council won't give him a home	Link
30/07/2018	Cambridge News online	Cambridge City reassure fans over soaring costs of new stadium	Link
31/07/2018	Cambridge News	Reassurance as stadium costs rocket	P7
31/07/2018	Cambridge News	Leader says workload's too heavy and needs to change	P11	CA article
31/07/2018	Cambridge News	Phase two of new town is beginning to take shape	P14	Cllr Hazel Smith quoted

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 27 July: Guardian: Opinion: Last-minute ministerial statements

Polly Toynbee discusses the raft of ministerial statements issued on the last day of Parliament, including a change to planning laws, under which communities lose the right to have their say on developments if they fail to meet government-imposed targets.

Monday 30 July: Guardian: Recycling symbols widely misunderstood, study finds

A survey by Which? has found that consumers are baffled by the “confusing” array of symbols on household packaging, leaving them in the dark about what can and cannot be recycled.

Monday 30 July: Mail: Three-weekly bin collections

Three-weekly bin collections are being proposed for some parts of England in a bid to increase recycling.

Tuesday 31 July: Express: Bin collections

Councils in some parts of England are improving recycling rates after introducing three-weekly bin collections, according to independent consultancy firm Eunomia.

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.

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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