Agenda

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 6 June to Friday 21 June

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 6 Jun

2pm

Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly

Council Chamber

GCP Team

Fri 7 Jun

Mon 10 Jun

Tue 11 Jun

Wed 12 Jun

10am

Planning Committee

Council Chamber

Ian Senior

Thu 13 Jun

5:20pm

Scrutiny and Overview Committee

Swansley Room

Victoria Wallace

Fri 14 Jun

 

Mon 17 Jun

Tue 18 Jun

Wed 19 Jun

10am

Employment and Staffing Committee – PROVISIONAL

Thu 20 Jun

Fri 21 Jun

 

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

2.

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme pdf icon PDF 544 KB

Please find attached road closures information for week commencing 3 June, in relation to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

 

To contact your A14 sections stakeholder manager, please use the email addresses below or the A14 helpline.

 

Section 1 & 2:Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line

John Birchall - John.Birchall@theA14.com

 

Section 3: East Coast Main Line to Swavesey

John Birchall - John.Birchall@theA14.com

 

Section 4 & 5: Swavesey to Milton

John Akester - John.Akester@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 the website.

3.

A14 Parish Newsletter for the Months of May and June 2019 pdf icon PDF 3 MB

The attached newsletter provides you with updates from May to June 2019, in relation to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.

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.

4.

Licensing Committee Training: Mon 10 June (all day) City Council

Licensing Committee training is available for our District Councillors on Monday 10 June from 9:30am to 4:30pm at Cambridge City Council.

 

Please note that Article 8.06 of the Council’s Constitution states that “No member shall be eligible to sit on a regulatory committee unless and until they have undertaken suitable training upon appointment to such committee.”

 

Please contact Democratic Services for more details or if you have any queries regarding this.

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

29/05/2019

Cambridge News

Plans to cut car journeys into city

P8

GCP article

29/05/2019

Cambridge Independent

Mayor and city leader at loggerheads

P1 & P4

CA article

29/05/2019

Cambridge Independent

Have your say on strategy to tackle transport challenges

P4

CA article

29/05/2019

Cambridge Independent

Off-road public transport route options are drawn up

P6

GCP article

30/05/2019

Royston Crow online

Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Community Rail Partnership celebrates success

Link

 

30/05/2019

Ely Standard online

East Cambridgeshire 'not unfairly benefiting' from combined authority, says Mayor Palmer

Link

CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted

30/05/2019

Wisbech Standard online

Mayor James Palmer to defer £5,000 pay rise and job pension until May 2021

Link

CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted

30/05/2019

Peterborough Telegraph online

Peterborough metro mayor defers £5k salary rise

Link

CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted

30/05/2019

Cambridge News online

Mayor Palmer says East Cambridgeshire does not unfairly benefit from Combined Authority

Link

CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted

30/05/2019

BBC Look East

Lunchtime bulletin: Report on bin lorry driver recruitment campaign

N/A

 

30/05/2019

BBC Look East

Evening bulletin: Extended report on bin lorry driver recruitment campaign

N/A

 

30/05/2019

BBC Look East

Late bulleting: Report on bin lorry driver recruitment campaign

N/A

 

30/05/2019

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PM bulletins: Bin lorry driver recruitment campaign

N/A

 

30/05/2019

Cambridge News online

Fly-tipping in this area has become so bad a gate might be put up to protect it

Link

 

30/05/2019

Cambridge Network online

Council proposes gate installation to prevent fly-tipping

Link

 

31/05/2019

ITV News Anglia online

Plan to tackle fly-tipping hotspot

Link

 

31/05/2019

Cambridge Independent online

Plans for off-road public transport routes drawn up for Cambridge south east

Link

GCP article

01/06/2019

Cambridge News online

All the major new housing developments coming to Cambridgeshire

Link

 

03/06/2019

Let's Recycle.com

South Cambs refuse workers to trial wearing shorts

Link

 

03/06/2019

Cambridge Network online

Refuse crews trial shorts following staff feedback

Link

 

04/06/2019

Cambridge News

Future of local transport up for discussion

P12

CA article

04/06/2019

BBC News online

Binmen to trial high visibility shorts in Cambridgeshire

Link

 

 

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.

 

Tuesday 4 June: Telegraph: Labour plan to replace council tax

A new report, commissioned by Labour, suggests that council tax should be scrapped and replaced with a “progressive property tax”.

 

Wednesday 5 June: BBC: Plastic pollution in canals and rivers

About 14 million items of plastic end up in canals and rivers in England and Wales, according to a report by the Canal and River Trust, which says more than half a million of these items reach the world’s oceans annually.

 

Wednesday 5 June: Mail: Green belt

One in six acres of green belt surrounding Cambridge has also been built on, says housebuilder Project Etopia.

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.

 

 

 

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/the-council/access-to-information/access-to-information-summary/

OTHER INFORMATION

8.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

Agendas

·                      Planning Committee 12 June

·                      Scrutiny & Overview Committee 13 June

 

Minutes

·                      Planning Committee 8 May

 

Plans

·                      Forward Plan of Key Decisions

 

9.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

New Employees at the Council

 

Name: Matthew Johnson

Job Title: Refuse Loader

Date started: 27 May 2019

 

Name: Lee Jones

Job Title: Facilities Manager

Date starting: 17 June 2019

 

Name: Charlotte Peet

Job Title: Planning Officer

Date starting: 10 June 2019