Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 19 February 2020 12.00 p.m.

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

Items

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Meetings and events from Thursday 20 February to Friday 6 March 2020

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 20 Feb	2pm	Council	Council Chamber	Kathrin John
Fri 21 Feb	10am	Licensing Appeals Sub-Committee	Swansley Room B	Victoria Wallace
	2pm	Licensing Appeals Sub-Committee	Swansley Room B	Victoria Wallace

Mon 24 Feb
Tue 25 Feb
Wed 26 Feb
Thu 27 Feb
Fri 28 Feb	10am	Grants Advisory Committee	Monkfield Room	Aaron Clarke


Mon 2 Mar
Tue 3 Mar	10am	Civic Affairs Committee	Swansley Room	Patrick Adams
Wed 4 Mar	9:30am	Cabinet	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Thu 5 Mar
Fri 6 Mar

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

Planned Road Closures for Week Commencing 17 February 2020 - A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme PDF 128 KB

Please find attachedroad closures information for week commencing Monday 17 February, 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.

John Birchall has now left the project. For all queries in relation to Section 1 & 2: Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line & Section 3: East Coast Main Line to Swavesey, please email A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk

Section 4 & 5: Swavesey to Milton

John Akester - John.Akester@thea14.com

Section 6: Huntingdon town centre

Liam Heath – liam.heath@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.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Media Monitoring

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The Council’s Communications Team produce a weekly summary of recent news items which is published in the Bulletin to help keep members informed of recent coverage of the Council.

Please contact the Communications Team for further information.

Date	Publication	Details

12/02/2020	Cambridge News	Homes England	P3	GCP article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted in GCP role
12/02/2020	Cambridge News	Councillor adds his voice to busway protest	P7	GCP article
12/02/2020	The MJ	South Cambridgeshire in leadership restructure	Link
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	New busway row escalates as decision day nears for GCP	P9	GCP article
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	City's first electric bus service	P17	GCP article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted in GCP role
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Letter: Give us an option that limits growth	P26	Letter from resident about Greater Cambridge Local Plan consultation
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer GCP column: Big changes are taking place to improve your journeys	P26 & P27
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Opinion: Our city's heritage needs a champion	P27	James Littlewood from Cambridge Past, Present & Future - referencing Local Plan
12/02/2020	Cambridge Independent online	Six verdicts on the preferred East West Rail route from Oxford to Cambridge via Cambourne	Link
13/02/2020	Cambridge News	Letter: Consultation and the future growth of city	P25	Letter from resident about Greater Cambridge Local Plan consultation
13/02/2020	The Construction Index online	Cambridge village to be built in Alfreton	Link	Reaction to Urban Splash planning permission
13/02/2020	24 housing online	UK's 'largest' modular neighbourhood gets the nod	Link	Reaction to Urban Splash planning permission
13/02/2020	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cllr Heather Williams and Cllr Bridget Smith interviewed about planning permission for Northstowe Urban Splash	1'20'' in
13/02/2020	Gov.UK	Second phase of Northstowe and one of the UK's largest modular neighbourhoods gets the green light	Link
13/02/2020	Cambridge News online	400 factory-built houses will be delivered by lorries to the new Northstowe development	Link
13/02/2020	Planning Resource online	Go-ahead for 'UK's biggest modular housing scheme' in Cambs	Link	Behind paywall. Unable to read full article
14/02/2020	Cambridge News	A year until the city has more electric buses	P8	GCP article
14/02/2020	Local Gov Online	Cambridgeshire's new modular neighbourhood gets the green light	Link
15/02/2020	Cambridge News	Plan for 400 factory-built homes gets go-ahead	P1 & P4
15/02/2020	Cambridge News	New tree planting scheme for town	P2
15/02/2020	Cambridge Independent online	Northstowe new town will have 400 factory-built homes	Link
15/02/2020	Cambridge News online	200 homes given the go ahead in Cottenham despite opposition	Link
17/02/2020	Cambridge Network online	Zero Carbon Communities grant scheme boosts Cambourne planting	Link
17/02/2020	Architects Journal online	Proctor & Matthews' phase 2 of Urban Splash modular new town approved	Link
17/02/2020	The Planner online	South Cambridgeshire approves Inholm plans	Link	Behind paywall. Unable to read full article
17/02/2020	Cambridge News online	Row breaks out as James Palmer seizes control of planned Cambourne to Cambridge busway	Link	GCP / CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted
17/02/2020	Cambridge Independent online	Mayor wrestles control of Cambridge to Cambourne busway scheme from Greater Cambridge Partnership	Link	GCP / CA article.
18/02/2020	Cambridge News	Mayor takes over control of C2C busway scheme	P3	GCP / CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted
18/02/2020	Cambridge News	200 homes approved despite the concerns of villagers	P10
19/02/2020	Cambridge News	Power struggle over who should run busway	P3	GCP / CA article. Cllr Bridget Smith quoted
19/02/2020	Cambridge News	Electric buses are launched	P7	GCP article
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Council building feels force of Storm Dennis	P2
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Busway bust-up puts stop to off-road route	P6 & P7	GCP / Ca article. Cllr Grenville Chamberlain quoted
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Milton Road upgrade to be three years later	P7	GCP article
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	The new 'village' that will arrive on the back of lorries	P17
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Letter: Acting green or just talking green	P25	Opinion letter from a resident
19/02/2020	Cambridge Independent	Advertisement feature on Commercial Waste team: Need help to recycle more business waste?	P29

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 13 February, Guardian: NAO: Councils invest £6bn in commercial property

A report by the National Audit Office suggest that between 2016 and 2019, councils spent £6.6 billion buying commercial property – a 14-fold increase on the previous three years.

Thursday 13 February, BBC Online: Fly-tipping: Organised crime behind ‘large rise’

Large-scale fly-tipping – defined as tipper lorry load or more in size – has more than doubled in six years, according to analysis by the BBC.

Thursday 13 February, Sky News Online: Pubs get extended opening hours for VE Day celebrations

Home Secretary will lay an order in Parliament to extend licensing hours for pubs, clubs and cinemas to stay open later to mark the 75^th anniversary of VE Day.

Saturday 15 February, BBC Online: Right to Build

BBC Online looks at the process behind Right to Build, where residents build their own home.

Wednesday 19 February, Sky News Online: No visas for low-skilled workers

The Government has outlined its plans for a points-based immigration system to come into force from January 2021.

View Planning Applications

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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.

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 12 FEBRUARY 2020

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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’.

Sale of land to the rear of 11 Coploe Road, Ickleton CB10 1ST for Self-Build

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The Lead Cabinet Member for Housing AGREED to the sale of HRA land to the rear of 11 Coploe Road, Ickleton, which has outline planning permission for the erection of a single dwelling for the best value price of £127,300.

This decision was first published on Friday 14 February and so the deadline for call-in is Friday 21 February at 5pm.

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/your-council-and-democracy/access-to-information/

OTHER INFORMATION

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

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