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Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 15 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 16 August 2018 to Friday 31 August 2018

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 16 Aug	2pm	Planning Committee		Ian Senior
Fri 17 Aug

Mon 20 Aug
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Mon 27 Aug
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INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS

New 'Technology One' Financial Management System - Coming Soon!

A new system called Technology One, or ‘T1’, will completely replace our current financial management system from 8th October 2018, introducing common and more efficient business processes and working practices across the 3C councils (SCDC, Huntingdonshire and Cambridge City).

As a result, we'll be introducing new processes that will affect all staff involved in managing budgets, buying goods, raising and processing invoices, and we are currently delivering training sessions to ensure that we are well prepared for this.

We will also be contacting all of our suppliers in the lead up to go-live to make clear what we need from them. Our number one message will be that from 8^th October all invoices will need a valid purchase order. We will therefore be asking that suppliers request a purchase order before the provision of goods or services takes place and any subsequent invoice is sent.

We will also be requesting that all correspondence, including the provision of invoices, takes place electronically to help our efforts to introduce more efficient, paperless processes.

If you have any questions, please contact Alex Colyer.

Community Right to Bid - Assets of Community Value

The Council has received the following nominations:

In Grantchester - The Orchard Tea Garden

The Council will make its decision by 01 October 2018

Further information about the Community Right to Bid and Assets of Community Value can be found on our webpage https://www.scambs.gov.uk/community-right-bid

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
08/08/2018	Cambridge Independent	Archaeologists begin dig at Bourn Airfield site earmarked for 3,500-home village	P6&7	Cllr Bridget Smith quoted. Mentions Local Plan.
08/08/2018	Cambridge Independent	Energy-saving homes and transport links key elements of new town plan	P7	Article about Waterbeach SPD
08/08/2018	Cambridge Independent	Tackling loneliness with the creation of new support role	P20
08/08/2018	Cambridge News Online	Inside the sprawling abandoned MOD barracks off the A10 at Waterbeach which will become a new town	Link	Picture-led article. Local member Cllr Judith Rippeth quoted.
08/08/2018	Cambridge Network	Vision for proposed new town north of Waterbeach published	Link
08/08/2018	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Stephen Kelly interviewed on drive time about Waterbeach SPD	Scroll to 1'22''in
09/08/2018	Royston Crow online	Renewed calls for more temporary Travellers' sites in Cambridgeshire	Link	From last month's Council meeting - LDR article
10/08/2018	Cambridge News	Letter: Metro not right for everyone	P17	Letter from Cllr Deborah Roberts
12/08/2018	Cambridge News Online	This village GP surgery has been voted by patients as the best in Cambridgeshire	Link	Mentions Social Navigator scheme at Sawston Surgery
13/08/2018	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cllr Peter Topping interviewed about North Uttlesford Garden Village	Scroll to 41m in
14/08/2018	Cambridge News online	Maps show huge extent of Cambridgeshire Waterbeach new town development	Link	Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted
14/08/2018	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Bulletin pieces about planning prosecution concerning Cottenham gothic house	N/A
14/08/2018	Cambridge News online	Couple fined after listed 17th century Gothic building falls into dangerous disrepair	Link
14/08/2018	BBC News Online	Couple fined over listed building 'disrepair'	Link
15/08/2018	Cambridge Independent	Call for stores to join food collection	P11
15/08/2018	Cambridge Independent	Fear cycleways will 'overcrowd' congested streets	P11	GCP article about Greenways scheme

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 9 August: Times: People Power: Residents to be given direct say in Local Government

Ministers are proposing that local authorities use online polls and citizens juries to give residents a direct say in decisions, such as to approve housing developments and the selling of assets. Councils in six areas will take part in trials over the next 12 months.

Thursday 9 August: Guardian: Tory MP Breaks Rank on Northampton County Council Crisis

The Government needs to urgently “learn the lessons” from the pressures facing Northamptonshire County Council if they are to prevent more councils facing similar funding issues, Conservative MP and LGA Vice President Andrew Lewer has warned.

Friday 10 August: BBC Online: Northamptonshire County Council approves cuts plan

The Government has announced it will abandon plans to place councils in charge of ring-fenced funding for emergency accommodation.

Friday 10 August: Independent: Government U-turn on supported housing plans

The Government has announced it will abandon plans to place councils in charge of ring-fenced funding for emergency accommodation.

Sunday 12 August: Observer: Third of UK’s Universal Credit claimants hit by deductions

A third of people receiving Universal Credit payments are having debts such as rent arrears, council tax bills and utilities deducted from payments before receiving them, a series of freedom of information requests have found.

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 8 August 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’.

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

Designation of Fulbourn Neighbourhood Area