Issue - meetings

Cabinet:

a.    appointed Councillors Peter McDonald (Liberal Democrat). Peter Topping (Conservative) and Aidan Van de Weyer (Liberal Democrat) to the A505 Royston to Granta Park Strategic Growth and Transport Study Member Steering Group and:

b.    appointed Councillors Henry Batchelor and Brian Milnes (both Liberal Democrats) as substitutes;

c.    at Councillor Peter Topping’s request, declined to appoint a Conservative substitute; and

d.    requested that officers ask Cambridgeshire County Council whether meetings of the Steering Group would be held in public.

This decision was first published on Friday 4 October and so the deadline for call-in is Friday 11 October at 5pm.

Cabinet:

a.    appointed Councillors Peter McDonald (Liberal Democrat). Peter Topping (Conservative) and Aidan Van de Weyer (Liberal Democrat) to the A505 Royston to Granta Park Strategic Growth and Transport Study Member Steering Group and:

b.    appointed Councillors Henry Batchelor and Brian Milnes (both Liberal Democrats) as substitutes;

c.    at Councillor Peter Topping’s request, declined to appoint a Conservative substitute; and

d.    requested that officers ask Cambridgeshire County Council whether meetings of the Steering Group would be held in public.

Cabinet considered a report on the recommendation that Cambridgeshire County Council establishes an A505 Royston to Granta Park Study Member Steering Group and the recommendation that South Cambridgeshire District Council appoints to that Group three District Councillors.

The Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development reported that Hertfordshire County Council was also being invited to appoint a Member.

Councillor Peter Topping expressed disappointment that Cambridgeshire County Council had decided that the Steering Group should be politically proportionate. He said that it ought instead to consist of Members whose wards were directly affected by the A505. Councillor Topping concluded by saying that, while he himself would serve as a member, the South Cambridgeshire District Council Conservative Group would not be appointing a substitute: if for any reason Councillor Topping could not attend a meeting, he would liaise with Councillor Jose Hales, who represented Melbourn.

Councillor Hales reminded officers that Terms of Reference would be needed.

Cabinet:

a.    appointed Councillors Peter McDonald (Liberal Democrat). Peter Topping (Conservative) and Aidan Van de Weyer (Liberal Democrat) to the A505 Royston to Granta Park Strategic Growth and Transport Study Member Steering Group and:

b.    appointed Councillors Henry Batchelor and Brian Milnes (both Liberal Democrats) as substitutes;

c.     at Councillor Peter Topping’s request, declined to appoint a Conservative substitute; and

d.    requested that officers ask Cambridgeshire County Council whether meetings of the Steering Group would be held in public, and to remind lead officers to present draft Terms of Reference to the inaugural meeting.