Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12.00 p.m.

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

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Meetings and events from Thursday 30 May to Friday 14 June

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 30 May
Fri 31 May	9am	Grants Advisory Committee	Swansley Room A	Ian Senior

Mon 3 Jun
Tue 4 Jun	10am	Civic Affairs Committee	Swansley Room	Patrick Adams
Wed 5 Jun	9:30am	Cabinet	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
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 & Overview Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Fri 14 Jun

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

Community Right to Challenge

A national initiative called Community Right to Challenge was introduced under the Government's Localism Act and gives voluntary and community groups, charities and parish councils the opportunity to make formal expressions of interest in running Council services if they believe they can provide them in a more efficient, responsive or cost-effective way. The period to put forward an expression of interest is now open and local groups have got until the end of July to challenge for the running of our services.

Visit www.scambs.gov.uk/community-development/community-rights/community-right-to-challenge/ for more information.

Contact: Ryan Coetsee on ryan.coetsee@scambs.gov.uk or 01954 713 461.

We wanted to make you aware of some changes to the Housing Related Support Services funded by Cambridgeshire County Council. The attached briefing provides a more detailed explanation. You may wish to note that, at this point in time, there is limited impact to schemes and services within South Cambridgeshire. However, future provision decisions may be influenced by the outcomes of the review. Further information can be provided by Heather Wood heather.wood@scambs.gov.uk or Sue Carter susan.carter@scambs.gov.uk if required.

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.

Enforcement Training: Mon 3 June at 2:30pm

Course: Enforcement Workshop

Date: Monday 3 June

Time: 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Venue: Swansley Room

Planning Committee Training: Wed 5 June (all day) at City Council

Planning Committee training is available for our District Councillors on Wednesday 5 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.

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

GENERAL INFORMATION

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

22/05/2019	Cambridge News	Funding boost for barn Trust		P15
22/05/2019	ITV News Anglia	PM Bulletin: Clip of Cllr Tumi Hawkins being interviewed about Urban&Civic planning permission		N/A
22/05/2019	Cambridge Independent	Getting active is all about Parklife		Page 2
22/05/2019	Cambridge Independent	Bank holiday bin day changes		Page 4
22/05/2019	Cambridge Independent	Travellers return to private land despite bollards		Page 17
22/05/2019	Cambridge Independent	Children give the presentations at science festival		Page 20	South Cambs mentioned as a supporter of the free event in Cambourne
23/05/2019	Local Gov Online	Can investing in property pay for services?		Link
25/05/2019	Cambridge News online	Dog walker's fury after finding hundreds of 'hippy crack' canisters in village		Link
26/05/2019	ITV News Anglia online	Cambridgeshire 'Rail Community Group' marks first year of work		Link
26/05/2019	Cambridge Independent online	Results of the 2019 European elections in the East of England		Link
26/05/2019	Cambridge News online	How the East of England voted in the EU elections 2019		Link
27/05/2019	Cambridge News	Survey backs plans to cut congestion in city centre		P4	GCP article
28/05/2019	Cambridge News	Resident's anger at legal high laughing gas canisters in lay-by		P3
28/05/2019	Architects' Journal online	Fletcher Priest's huge Cambridgeshire MOD land scheme wins approval		Link
28/05/2019	Royston Crow online	European elections 2019: Breakdown of how North Herts and South Cambs		Link
28/05/2019	Cambridge Independent online	Harston Residents Association: 'We need a travel plan to rid village of 18,800 vehicles'		Link	GCP article
29/05/2019	Cambridge News	Plans to cut car journeys into city		P8	GCP article

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.

Friday 24 May: Sky News Online: EU citizens complain of being denied right to vote

EU citizens living in the UK have reportedly been unable to vote in the European elections.

Saturday 25 May: BBC Online: Home extension planning rules eased

Home owners across England will be able to extend their properties quickly and easily without the need for a full planning application.

Saturday 25 May: Independent: Households in temporary accommodation rise almost 75% this decade

A total of 83,700 households were in bed and breakfast and other temporary accommodation at the end of December 2018, including 124,490 children.

Sunday 26 May: Mail on Sunday: Recycling

A BBC documentary by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall reveals supermarket packaging and English council recycling bags have been dumped in rubbish piles in Malaysia.

Tuesday 28 May: Independent Online: Universal Credit staff strike

Staff at two sites dealing with Universal Credit will begin a two-day strike today in a row over workloads and recruitment.

Wednesday 29 May: BBC Online: English councils warned on “running out” of reserve cash

Several councils in England risk running out of cash reserves if recent spending continues, according to analysis of a report by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

Wednesday 29 May: Telegraph: UK may have to take back hundreds of tonnes of plastic

Britain may have to take back hundreds of tonnes of unwanted plastic waste from Malaysia after the country’s environment minister said it would not be treated as the world’s “dumping ground”.

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 22 MAY 2019

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’.

10.

Provisional of 36 Affordable Dwellings at Bennell Farm, Toft

View the background to item 10.

Lead Cabinet Member for Housing

AGREED To approve South Cambridgeshire District Council entering into Heads of Terms followed thereafter by a contract to purchase 36 affordable homes on a site at Bennell Farm, Toft.

This decision was first published on Friday 24 May and so the deadline for call-in is Tuesday 4 June, which is a day later than usual due to the bank holiday.

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

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