Agenda

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 28 March to Friday 12 April 2019

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 28 Mar

Fri 29 Mar

10am

Grants Advisory Committee

Monkfield Room

Ian Senior

Mon 1 Apr

Tue 2 Apr

Wed 3 Apr

9:30am

Cabinet

Council Chamber

Ian Senior

Thu 4 Apr

2pm

Council – CANCELLED

Fri 5 Apr

 

Mon 8 Apr

Tue 9 Apr

Wed 10 Apr

10:30am

Planning Committee

Council Chamber

Ian Senior

Thu 11 Apr

Fri 12 Apr

 

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.

Health and Wellbeing Strategy - 3 April at 4pm

District Councillors are invited to a Health and Wellbeing Strategy Workshop on Wednesday 3 April from 4pm to 6pm in the Council Chamber.

 

The focus of the workshop will be to identify actions already undertaken at the community level to promote health and to agree priorities for the next 3 years with actions (aligned to the business plan).

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

20/03/2019

Cambridge News

Crucial A14 link road between Girton and Dry Drayton opens

P11

 

20/03/2019

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Granta Medical Practice lead interviewed about Social Navigator programme

14m in

 

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent online

Caravans illegally parked in Willingham greenbelt removed

Link

 

20/03/2019

That's Cambridge TV

Cllr Hazel Smith interviewed about the proposals to resettle refugees

Link

 

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent

£4bn metro with tunnels approved by study

P1, 6 & 7

CA article

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent

£227m to create a north-east district

P8&9

 

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent

Council invests £13million to buy Cambridge Science Park building

P9

 

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent

A missing link

P21

A14 local access road article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted

20/03/2019

Cambridge Independent

Homes pledge for refugee families

P21

 

21/03/2019

Cambridge News

Chief executive top of council staff pay table with £173,500 salary

P8

County-focussed - mentions GCP Chief Exec salary

21/03/2019

Cambridge News online

Authorities investigate after bin men thrown from lorry in serious crash

Link

 

21/03/2019

Planning Resource online

How the need to show biodiversity benefit to get permission affects you

Link

Cllr Tumi Hawkins quoted. Behind paywall - unable to read full article

21/03/2019

Built Environment Networking online

Cambridge green belt needs a mature debate, says council leader

Link

 

22/03/2019

Saffron Walden Reporter online

Council raises concern over plans to triple size of Wellcome Genome Campus

Link

Mentions planning application currently in to SCDC

22/03/2019

Cambridge News

Travellers moved on after action by district council

P3

 

23/03/2019

Cambridge Independent online

Homes pledge for refugee families

Link

 

23/03/2019

Cambridge News online

The garden waste postcode lottery: why you could be paying more than your neighbour

Link

Round-up of green bin collection arrangements in Cambridgeshire

23/03/2019

Warrington Guardian online

Warrington among 65 percent of councils now charging for green bins

Link

Round-up of green bin collection arrangements nationally

23/03/2019

Cambridge Independent online

Compelling case' for Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro system

Link

CA article

24/03/2019

BBC News online

Cambridge Metro: Engineer says underground will work

Link

CA article

25/03/2019

Cambridge News online

Less car parking and dual carriageways: how the A10's congestion problem could be solved

Link

CA article

25/03/2019

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Pippa Heylings interviewed about Council's plans to plant more trees: New trees strategy

24 mins in

 

25/03/2019

Cambridge News

Quick wins' planned for A10

P11

CA article

26/03/2019

Cambridge News online

Drivers are going bonkers after this new A14 road was directed into a local area

Link

Cllr Sarah Cheung-Johnson quoted

27/03/2019

Cambridge News online

Parents outraged after noise complaints threaten to tear down Burwash Manor's playground

Link

 

27/03/2019

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Anna Bradnam interviewed about how the Council works to improve taxi driver safety

12 mins in

 

 

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.

 

Thursday 21 March, BBC Online: Voter ID trials ruled lawful by High Court judge

A scheme to make voters bring ID to polling stations, to be trialled in nine councils for elections in May, has been ruled lawful by a High Court judge after a campaigner had said the trial would prevent people from voting.

 

Friday 22 March, BBC Online: Bin collections are weekly for just one in six councils

Just one in six councils in the UK still collect non-recyclable waste from the majority of homes in their area every week.

 

Saturday 23 March, BBC Online: Northamptonshire Council lent law firm £1m

Northamptonshire County Council, which was twice forced to stop all non-essential spending in 2018, lent LGSS Law, which is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, Northamptonshire County Council and Central Bedfordshire Council nearly £1 million.

 

Monday 25 March, Guardian: Million new homes “could be build on derelict land”

More than a million new homes could be built on brownfield land across England, according to new analysis.

 

Wednesday 26 March, Guardian: Improve quality of rough-sleeping figures, says UK statistics chief

The head of the UK statistics regulator has said the Government needs to improve the quality of rough-sleeping figures in England, following allegations that some councils have underreported the scale of the crisis in their area.

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.

 

 

 

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

6.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

Agendas

·                      Grants Advisory Committee 29 March 2019

·                      Cabinet 3 April

Decisions

·                      Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board 20 March

Minutes

·                      Council 2pm 21 February

·                      Council 3pm 21 February

·                      Grants Advisory Committee 22 February 2019

·                      Cabinet 6 March