Information

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 24 July 2019 12.00 p.m.

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 25 July to Friday 9 August

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 25 Jul

2pm

Employment and Staffing Committee

Swansley Room

Patrick Adams

Fri 26 Jul

10am

Grants Advisory Committee

Monkfield Room

Aaron Clarke

Mon 29 Jul

Tue 30 Jul

9:30am

Audit and Corporate Governance Committee

Swansley Room

Patrick Adams

Wed 31 Jul

Thu 1 Aug

Fri 2 Aug

 

Mon 5 Aug

Tue 6 Aug

Wed 7 Aug

9:30am

Cabinet - CANCELLED

Thu 8 Aug

Fri 9 Aug

 

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCIL

2.

Notification of A14 related Road Closures pdf icon PDF 316 KB

To contact your A14 sections stakeholder manager, please use the email addresses below or our A14 helpline.

 

Section 1 & 2:Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line

John Birchall - John.Birchall@theA14.com

 

Section 3: East Coast Main Line to Swavesey

John Birchall - John.Birchall@theA14.com

 

Section 4 & 5: Swavesey to Milton

John Akester - John.Akester@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

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

17/07/19

Cambridge Independent

Demolition for 'unusual' drying shed

P11

 

18/07/19

Royston Crow online

South Cambs District Council call waiting times revealed

Link

 

19/07/19

Cambridge News

Longer wait to speak to council

Page 10

 

19/07/19

Cambridge News online

New primary school given the go-ahead for Cambridge village

Link

 

23/07/19

Cambridge Independent online

Construction of Cambridge's new cycling bridge to start

Link

GCP article

 

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 18 July, Telegraph: Rubbish-tip fees for households to be reviewed

The Government has launched a review after it was report that some councils are charging householders to take their waste to rubbish tips.

 

Friday 19 July, Telegraph: Councils in the countryside have far less to spend on elderly than those in cities

A new study by the Salvation Army has revealed that councils rural areas like Dorset have five times less to spend on care of the elderly than those in cities.

 

Monday 22 July, Times: We must build homes on the green belt, insists Rees-Mogg

Developers must be allowed to build on sections of the green belt or a whole generation will be barred from home ownership, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.

 

Monday 22 July, Guardian: Climate crisis beat terrorism and housing as a priority, poll says

Protecting the environment has overtaken affordable housing and the threat to terrorism in the public’s policy priorities over the last eight months, according to research.

 

Monday 22 July, Guardian: Britain’s first climate assembly agrees plan for council to tackle crisis

Actions to tackle the climate crisis have been agreed by Britain’s first climate assembly which has come up with 17 proposals, including installing solar panels on all available roofs and cutting fossil fuels out of local government developments.

 

Tuesday 23 July, Guardian: Poor universal credit advice costs claimants, MPs say

Benefit

Benefit claimants are being left thousands of pounds worse off because they are not being informed of the consequences if they move prematurely to universal credit, MPs have said.

 

Wednesday 24 July, Telegraph: Councils told to offer recycling service within four years

Councils will have to offer households a comprehensive recycling service within four years under the new Environmental Bill, ministers have said.

 

Wednesday 24 July, BBC Online: Government accused of prolonging UK housing crisis

The Government has not sold enough land for affordable and social housing to tackle the housing crisis, MPs have said.

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

·                      Employment & Staffing Committee 25 July

·                      Grants Advisory Committee 26 July

·                      Audit & Corporate Governance Committee 30 July

 

Decisions

·                      Council 18 July

 

Minutes

·                      Grants Advisory Committee 28 June

 

 

7.

SCDC Starters and Leavers

Staff who have left/will be leaving

 

Name: Simon Maskell

Job title: Planning Officer

Date leaving: 31 July 2019