Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 2 October 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 3 October to Friday 18 October

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 3 Oct
Fri 4 Oct

Mon 7 Oct
Tue 8 Oct
Wed 9 Oct	10:30am	Planning Committee	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Thu 10 Oct
Fri 11 Oct


Mon 14 Oct
Tue 15 Oct
Wed 16 Oct
Thu 17 Oct	3pm	Scrutiny & Overview Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Fri 18 Oct

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

Planned Road Closures for Week Commencing Monday 30 September - A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme PDF 435 KB

Please find attached road closures information for w/c 30 September, 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.

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

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

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

25/09/19	Cambridge News	Fears for wildlife if development goes ahead	P6	City Council article. Includes response from Shared Planning Service spokesperson
25/09/19	Cambridge News	The dangerous and weird - what not to recycle	P14
25/09/19	Cambridge Independent	Residents fear new lights will cause 'mayhem' on the roads	P8	GCP article
25/09/19	Cambridge Independent	Pace of house-building may double	P12
25/09/19	Cambridge Independent	The householder who decided to recycle a grenade	P12
25/09/19	Cambridge Independent	Airfield's 4,000 homes must have A428 car access	P16
25/09/19	Cambridge News online	A Cambridgeshire village could be getting a new nursery and office buildings	Link	Planning application submitted
26/09/19	Cambridge Network online	Updated vision for thriving new village published	Link
26/09/19	Cambridge News	Offices and nursery scheme for village	P10	Planning application submitted
26/09/19	Let's Recycle.com	Recycle Week events and campaigns continue across UK	Link
26/09/19	Cambridge Independent online	Villagers want 4,000 new Bourn Airfield homes to have A428 access	Link
26/09/19	Haverhill Echo online	South Cambridgeshire Council could fail to complete external audit for third straight year	Link
27/09/19	Cambridge News	Council faces up to another year of accounts woe	P10
27/09/19	Cambridge News	Residents 'do a brilliant job' of recycling 1,500 tonnes of plastic	P14	RECAP article. Cllr Bill Handley quoted in RECAP role
27/09/19	Cambridge News	Time to rethink council's shared planning service?	P25	Letter from Cllr Deborah Roberts
27/09/19	Cambridge Network online	Councillors agree independent recommendation for 2% increase in basic allowance in bid to 'open up the role to more people'	Link
28/09/19	Cambridge News online	South Cambs District Council leader given 36 per cent pay increase	Link
28/09/19	Cambridge News	Council leader's allowances increased by total of 36%	Page 3
30/09/19	Cambridge News online	Row breaks out over plans to let council authorise wind turbines	Link
30/09/19	Peterborough Telegraph	8 million pieces of packaging made from Cambridgeshire recycled material	Link

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.

Saturday 28 September: BBC Online: Universal credit: Labour pledges to scrap welfare scheme

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledge to scrap universal credit, promising an interim payment after two weeks, across the UK, to replace a five-week waiting period.

Saturday 28 September: Guardian: Biffa fined £350k for contaminate China paper shipment

Waste management giant Biffa has been fined £350,000 for trying to send household rubbish to China as paper fit for recycling.

Monday 30 September: BBC Online: UK household waste

UK households produce just under 27 million tonnes of waste in 2017, latest figures show.

Tuesday 1 October: Telegraph: Minister calls for building on green belt to be put to local vote

People should be able to vote on whether to build on the green belt in their local areas, Housing Minister Esther McVey has said.

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

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