Agenda

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 16 November to Friday 1 December

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 16 Nov

10am

 

2pm

CDRP Stakeholder Board

 

Cabinet

Monkfield Room

 

Swansley Room

Patrick Adams

 

Ian Senior

Fri 17 Nov

Mon 20 Nov

Tue 21 Nov

6pm

Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder’s Meeting

Swansley Room

Ian Senior

Wed 22 Nov

4pm

Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board

County Council

Kathrin John

Thu 23 Nov

2pm

Council

Council Chamber

Kathrin John

Fri 24 Nov

9:30am

Audit & Corporate Governance Committee - CANCELLED

 

Mon 27 Nov

Tue 28 Nov

Wed 29 Nov

Thu 30 Nov

Fri 1 Dec

 

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

2.

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon - Planned Closures pdf icon PDF 567 KB

Below are details of this weeks planned closures, as part of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

This week’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon closures;

 

Mon 13 to Wed 15
A1 southbound between Alconbury & Brampton (each night, 9pm - 6am)
A14 eastbound between St Ives (J26) & Girton (J31), including A1307 inbound (each night, 9pm - 6am)

Mon 13 to Thurs 16
A1 northbound between Brampton Hut & Alconbury (each night, 9pm - 6am)

Thurs 16 to Fri 17
A14 westbound Girton (J31) & Fenstanton (J27), including A1307 outbound (each night, 9pm - 6am)

Fri 17 for one night
A1 northbound between Buckden & Alconbury (9pm - 6am)

Fri 17 to Mon 13
A1 northbound exit slip road (Fri 9pm to Mon 5am).

Upcoming closure;

 

Sat 25 for one night
A14 full closure eastbound & westbound between Fenstanton (J27) & Swavesey (J28), to remove temporary bailey bridge (9pm to 6am). More details will be sent out shortly.

 

The official diversion route will be signposted and diversion maps for the A1 and A14 closures are attached. Variable message signs will be in place that will advise drivers of the upcoming closures.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Additional documents:

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

08/11/2017

Cambridge News

Save our skate park (Teversham)

P3

 

08/11/2017

Star Radio Online

Man prosecuted for having fake taxi badge

Link

 

08/11/2017

Cambridge News online

Youngsters barricaded out of skate park after row over noise

Link

 

08/11/2017

Cambridge News

He was fooling his passengers': Fake taxi driver snared

Link

 

09/11/2017

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Sue Ellington interviewed about pilot project to help tackle loneliness

 

 

09/11/2017

Cambridge News

This is what the new hotel, shops and offices at Cambridge North could be like

Link

Mentions joint development committee meeting on Weds 15 Nov

09/11/2017

Star Radio Online

Council ensures fly-tipped waste is rapidly removed from beauty spot

Link

 

09/11/2017

Star Radio Online

£55,000 funding pot could help communities go green

Link

 

09/11/2017

Cambridge Independent

Fly-tippers dump rubbish at National Trust beauty spot Wimpole Estate

Link

 

09/11/2017

Star Radio Online

New treatment at doctor surgery planned to tackle loneliness

Link

 

09/11/2017

Cambridge News

Fences go up round popular skate park

P7

 

09/11/2017

Cambridge News

This is shocking and scary, but I think he got off very lightly': Bogus taxi driver sentenced

Link

 Includes positive feedback for SCDC from Paul Bradley, vice chair of Cambridge Hackney and private hire association

09/11/2017

Cambridge News

Lonely people will be able to go to the doctor's for help

Link

 

09/11/2017

Cambridge News

Traveller germs' warning at children's playground sparks outrage

Link

 

10/11/2017

Cambridge News

A skip's worth of waste was dumped in a National Trust beauty spot

Link

 

10/11/2017

Cambridge News

Fury at 'light' sentence for bogus driver

P6

 

10/11/2017

Cambridge News

Letter from Cllr John Williams: Clear up this mess of a bin service

P18

 

10/11/2017

The Sun Online

Fury's Fury Tyson Fury's anger after parents told to keep kids out of play park because 'traveller' children left 'germs'

Link

 

10/11/2017

Daily Mirror Online

Warning to parents over 'traveller germs' at children's playground sparks outrage

Link

 

10/11/2017

Cambridge News

Gypsy King' Tyson Fury wades into playground 'traveller germs' row - and asks councillor to inspect his kids

Link

 

10/11/2017

BBC News Online

Boxer Tyson Fury's fury over Milton village traveller play park 'germs'

Link

 

10/11/2017

Forecourt Trader

Car wash owner fined after waste fly-tipped at beauty spot

Link

 

13/11/2018

Cambridge News

Councillor should dig a little deeper (letter in response to Cllr Williams' regarding bin collections in Bar Hill)

P18

 

12/11/2017

Cambridge News

Cambridgeshire could get more than 60,000 new homes by 2036.

Link

Round-up of where each local council is with the Local Plan process.

13/11/2017

Cambridge News

Cyclists slam Cambridge North hotel and office development saying layout could put people in peril

Link

 

13/11/2017

Cambridge Independent

Cambourne to Cambridge busway plans move forward

Link

GCP article

13/11/2017

Heart Radio Online

Have your say on potential new busway for west Cambridge

Link

GCP article

14/11/2017

Cambridge News

Proposed development will 'put people at risk'

P8

Article about plans for hotel etc around Cambridge North

15/11/2017

Cambridge News

The vision for the new 1,200 homes in Cherry Hinton

Link

 

 

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.

Sunday 12 November: Sunday Telegraph: Hammond considers “build up, not out” plan

Developers and home owners would be allowed to extend the height of properties without planning permission, under plans being considered for the Budget by the Chancellor.

 

Monday 13 November: Times: Right to buy is doomed unless we get more power, say councils

Councils are warning that only one in every three homes being sold under the right-to-buy scheme is being replaced.

 

Wednesday 15 November: Telegraph: Let us borrow to build homes, LGA Chairman urges Chancellor

The LGA’s Chairman, Lord Porter, has urged the Chancellor to lift the housing borrowing cap in the upcoming Autumn budget, and allow councils to borrow to build new homes.

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 WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER

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.

Mobile Phone and Mobile Device Management Procurement Project

The Business and Customer Services Portfolio Holder

 

AGREED        That he, Councillor Nick Wright, Councillor Henry Batchelor and Councillor Grenville Chamberlain should carry out testing of Boxer on their iPads when the software is ready to deploy.

 

This decision was first published on Thursday 9 November and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 16 November. If not called-in this decision can be implemented on Friday 17 November.

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

7.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

 

 

Agendas

·                      CDRP Board Stakeholder Event 16 November

·                      Cabinet 16 November

·                      Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board 22 November

·                      Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder 21 November

Decisions

·                      Business & Customer Services Portfolio Holder 9 November

·                      Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly 2 November

Minutes

·                      Licensing Committee 27 October

·                      Finance & Staffing Portfolio Holder meeting 17 October

Plans

·                      Forward Plan of Key Decisions

 

8.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

New Employees at the Council

 

Name: Mark Pink

Job title: Refuse Loader

Date started: 6 November 2017

Staff who will be leaving

 

Name: David Cooper

Job title: Customer Contact Advisor

Date leaving: 3 December 2017

 

Name: Patrick Rookes

Job title: Refuse Operative

Date leaving: 30 November 2017