Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 16 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 17 October to 1 November 2019

Date	Time	Name	Venue	Contact
Thu 17 Oct	3pm	Scrutiny & Overview Committee	Swansley Room	Victoria Wallace
Fri 18 Oct	2pm	Officer led briefing on Wellcome Genome Expansion	Swansley Room

Mon 21 Oct
Tue 22 Oct
Wed 23 Oct
Thu 24 Oct	10am	Extraordinary Planning Committee (Wellcome Trust)	Council Chamber	Ian Senior
Fri 25 Oct	10am	Grants Advisory Committee	Monkfield Room	Aaron Clarke


Mon 28 Oct
Tue 29 Oct	10am	Civic Affairs Committee	Swansley Room	Patrick Adams
Wed 30 Oct
Thu 31 Oct
Fri 1 Nov

INFORMATION FOR DISTRICT COUNCILLORS AND PARISH COUNCILS

Let's Talk Loneliness in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

You are warmly invited to the 'Let's talk about loneliness in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough' conference on 22nd November at St Andrew's Centre in Histon, CB24 9JE between 10.30am and 4.30pm.

This conference is free to attend and is intended as a platform to support local statutory and non-statutory organisations, businesses and community groups, interested in tackling loneliness and social isolation.

The programme for the day will showcase local and national initiatives to tackle loneliness and provide practical tips and tools for you to take away and use to further address loneliness in our communities.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

A14 Road Closures for this week PDF 568 KB

Please find attached road closures information for w/c 14 October, 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

09/10/19	Cambridge News	Here's how to unclog our roads, deliver clean air and improve public transport	P3	GCP article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted in GCP role
09/10/19	Cambridge News	Two homes shut due to drug use and intimidation	P7
09/10/19	Cambridge News	Business booms in South Cambridgeshire - and the council benefits	P16
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Support for moves to close city roads to cars	P1 & P7	GCP article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted in GCP role
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Year-long closure of southbound Histon Road delayed	P4	GCP article
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Closure orders for two village homes	P5
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Eco living or congestion hell?	P14	Article about Bourn SPD adoption
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Citizens lead the way with a new approach	P28 & P29	Column from Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer in GCP role
09/10/19	Cambridge News online	Explained: Cambridgeshire Citizens' Assembly	Link	GCP article. Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer quoted in GCP role
09/10/19	Cambridge Independent online	Two houses in Waterbeach have been issued with closure orders	Link
09/10/19	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire	Cllr Anna Bradnam interviewed on drive about Waterbeach New Town forum	38 mins in
10/10/19	Cambridge Network online	Council's Community Chest fund increases to £49,000 as criteria is widened to allow more groups to bid	Link
10/10/19	Cambridge News	Cash boost for Council from business rates	P14
10/10/19	Cambridge News online	New housing development coming to South Cambs called a 'monstrosity'	Link
10/10/19	Cambridge Independent online	Next phases of Darwin Green revealed	Link
10/10/19	Cambridge Network online	Good news for commuters: A14 improvement scheme to open a year early	Link	Reaction from Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer
11/10/19	Cambridge News	Bypass to open a year early	P4	Reaction from Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer
11/10/19	Cambridge News	Monstrosity' homes plan is approved	P7
11/10/19	Cambridge News	Council leader's concerns over hidden homeless	P17
11/10/19	Cambridge News	More causes can get funding from community chest	P18
11/10/19	Cambridge News	Windfarm noise is within the permitted limits	P25	Letter from Cllr Bill Handley
11/10/19	Royston Crow online	Combined authority cash for five new affordable homes in Meldreth	Link	CA article
11/10/19	Cambridge Independent online	An end to the 'chaos' of short-stay tourism in Cambridge?	Link
13/10/19	Royston Crow online	South Cambs community groups urged to apply for council funding boost	Link
14/10/19	Cambridge Independent online	Controversial plan for 66 homes at Highfields Caldecote approved	Link
16/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Miles ahead on the A14 upgrade work	P8	Reaction from Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer
16/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Groups can apply for chest funding	P17
16/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Travel hub plan is simply a 750 space car park'	P19	GCP article
16/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Three-storey 'monstrosity' gets approved	P22
16/10/19	Cambridge Independent	Letter: Council seeks views and then ignores them	P25

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 11 October 2019: Guardian Online: PWLB loan rate rise

Housing, regeneration and infrastructure projects across the country could be cancelled after the Treasury unexpectedly raised borrowing costs from the Public Works Loan Board by one percentage point.

Saturday 12 October 2019: Independent Online: B&B bill for homeless soars

The LGA has warned that councils are being forced to spend 10 times more on housing homeless families in bed and breakfast accommodation than a decade ago.

Saturday 12 October 2019: Times: Clean air promise

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to include legally binding targets to reduce pollution as part of his Queen’s speech on Monday.

Monday 14 October 2019: Guardian: Uncertainty over UK general election date increases organising costs

Uncertainty over a general election date in increasing costs for organisers, with venues of choice for polling stations and counting centres booked for pre-Christmas events.

Monday 14 October 2019: Telegraph: Building on green belt is not delivering affordable homes, campaigners say

A report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England has found that just one in 10 homes built on green belt is deemed to be affordable.

Tuesday 15 October 2019: BBC Online: Environment Bill

The Government will today enshrine environmental principles in law and set out a framework for improvements to air and water quality, as well as measures to cut plastic pollution.

Wednesday 16 October 2019: Times: McVey to send in ‘A-Team’ to help councils build homes

Housing Minister Esther McVey will send a “planning A-Team” into councils to encourage the building of more new homes.

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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