Agenda

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.

The Cambridgeshire Road Safety Partnership are undertaking a review of local Road Safety governance, strategy and delivery. To this end we are issuing a survey to gain insight into the concerns, needs and desires of the people of the county. The survey is open for a relatively short period of time and we would like as many people as possible to complete it. To help with this, can you please:

§  Complete the survey yourself

§  Promote the survey as widely and as often as possible via your social media channels

§  Promote the survey widely within your own organisation

§  Share the survey with your end users as much as possible

§  Forward this email on to anyone who can spread the survey even further

The link to the survey, which closes on 6th February, is below: 

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/33PW2/ 

From Sunday 19 January 2020, there will be changes to some of our bus stops at Drummer Street Station, Cambridge.

Services affected are:

• 9/X9
• 19
• 13/13a/X13
• 206
• 11/X11
• 12
• 16a
• 18
• Busway

Further details available on the Stagecoach website

Thursday 9 January, BBC Online: Housing benefit errors “making families homeless”

Some families are being pushed into homelessness due to problems in the housing benefits system, according to the Local Government Ombudsman which found some councils in England were miscalculating these payments.

Thursday 9 January, BBC Radio 4 You and Yours: Public health funerals

A small number

A small number of councils are not returning ashes to families by default after public health funerals, and are charging families to get them back, according to Freedom of Information figures obtained by Royal London insurance.

Friday 10 January, Independent Online: Housing Benefit

LGA Deputy Chairman Cllr John Fuller appeared live on the BBC News Channel to discuss a report by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman which warned that families were being driven towards homelessness as a result of problems in the housing benefits system.

Saturday 11 January, Independent Online: Over 13,500 affordable homes “lost” to office conversions

More than 13,500 affordable homes could have been lost across England over the past four years because of rules allowing developers to dodge planning permission, council leaders have warned.

Saturday 11 January, Times: Revival of village halls

Village halls are enjoying a resurgence as many of England’s 10,000 village halls are now bustling hubs.

Sunday 12 January, Sunday Telegraph: Fly-tipping “farm-aggedon”

The District Councils Network is warning of a “fly-tipping farm-aggedon” after figures showed that annual incidents of fly-tipping in agricultural sports had increased from 888 to 1,473 since 2012/13.

Monday 13 January, Independent Online: Poll shows public support for accelerated cuts in carbon emissions

A poll for The Independent has found overwhelming support for radical change to end the UK’s net carbon emissions by the end of the decade.

Tuesday 14 January, Telegraph: Opinion: Countryside’s ‘second-class status’

Noreen Wainwright, a diary farmer in the Staffordshire Moorlands, writes about the contrast between urban and rural life and the countryside’s ‘second-class status’.

Wednesday 15 January, Independent Online: Protection for ancient woodlands

More than 1,000 ancient woods are at risk of being damaged or destroyed by property development, according to the Woodland Trust.

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’. 

The Lead Cabinet Member for Finance AGREED to the recommendations made by the Grants Advisory Committee on 20 December 2019.

This decision was first published on Thursday 9 January and so the deadline for call-in is 5pm on Thursday 16 January.

The Lead Cabinet Member for Finance AGREED to increase the funding available for the Zero Carbon Communities Grant Scheme by £30,000 from £91,229 to £121,229.

This decision was first published on Thursday 9 January and so the deadline for call-in is Thursday 16 January at 5pm.

Cabinet

(a)          Noted the outturn position of a £2.742 million underspend for the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Capital Programme and that, of this, £1.124 million was at that time proposed for reprofiling into future years;

(b)          Consider the updated HRA capital programme at Appendix B which has been re-profiled in line with the expected timing of spend and amended in line with expected levels of spend where appropriate; 

(c)          Noted that, in order to finance the updated Capital Programme, borrowing of around £10 million was likely to be required during 2021/22;

(d)          noted that, following the abolition of the HRA debt cap, a local debt cap had been calculated as £250 million at 1^st April 2019 rising to £300 million as at 31^st March 2022;

(e)          Recommended to Full Council the revised HRA capital programme for the period 2019/2020 to 2024/2025, at Appendix B, to reflect amendments to, and the reprofiling of expenditure identified in the report.  

This decision was first published on Monday 13 January and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 20 January at 5pm.

Cabinet

(a)          approved an estimated surplus at 31 March 2020 in relation to the Council Tax element of the Collection Fund of £0.774 million be declared for 2019/2020 and shared between the Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge Police & Crime Commissioner and the Cambridgeshire Fire Authority in proportion to their 2019/2020 precepts on the Collection Fund;

(b)          agreed that, in future financial years, the determination of the estimated Collection Fund surplus for distribution to precepting bodies be delegated to the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance.

This decision was first published on Monday 13 January and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 20 January at 5pm.

Cabinet

a)     Considered the main issues raised in the public consultation; agree responses to the representations received and agreed consequential proposed changes to the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) as set out in the Consultation Statement and the tracked changed version of the SPD for adoption (See Appendices A and B);

b)     Subject to a), adopted the Greater Cambridge Sustainable Design and Construction SPD; and

c)     Delegated to the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development, in liaison with the Lead Cabinet Member for Planning, the authority to make any editing changes to the SPD prior to publication.

This decision was first published on Monday 13 January and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 20 January at 5pm.

Cabinet

a)    Approved the Greater Cambridge Economic Action Plan;

b)    Delegated authority to the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development to make minor typographical/factual changes or changes to improve legibility/understanding prior to the publication of the Economic Action Plan;

c)    Agreed the proposal for a new Business Support Service for South Cambridgeshire;

This decision was first published on Monday 13 January and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 20 January at 5pm.

Cabinet:

a)    Noted the details of the proposed statement of community consultation

b)    Delegated to the Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development the submission of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s response to the proposed statement of community consultation as set out in Appendix 2 to the confidential report, subject to

                                          i.    Anglian Water undertaking additional public consultation as proposed at the meeting; and

                                        ii.    Ensuring enough flexibility in the proposals to allow for amendment should there be a change in circumstances as discussed at the meeting.

This decision was first published on Monday 13 January and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 20 January at 5pm.

The Leader AGREED to appoint Councillor Heather Williams as substitute to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

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

The Lead Cabinet Member for Planning AGREED to adopt the Supplementary Planning Document.

This decision was published on Wednesday 15 January and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 22 January at 5pm.

The Lead Cabinet Member for Planning AGREED to adopt the Supplementary Planning Document.

This decision was published on Wednesday 15 January and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 22 January at 5pm.

The Lead Cabinet Member for Planning AGREED to adopt the Supplementary Planning Document.

This decision was published on Wednesday 15 January and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 22 January at 5pm.

The Lead Cabinet Member for Planning AGREED to adopt the Supplementary Planning Document.

This decision was published on Wednesday 15 January and so the deadline for call-in is Wednesday 22 January at 5pm.

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/