Agenda

Please find attached road closures information for week commencing 10 February, 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.

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.

Please find attached a digital brochure for The Library Presents Spring season of events, which are due to commence toward the end of February 2020 until June 2020. Please see pages 2-7 for our contents listing events occurring in libraries within the local districts.

Acting Commissioner announces increase in policing part of council tax in line with Government expectation

PEOPLE living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough can expect to pay an extra 83p per month towards police funding in their 2020/21 council tax bills (based on a Band D property), following a decision made by the county’s Police and Crime Panel today (Thursday 6^th February).

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.

We now have an organisation wide subscription for the Local Government Chronicle, which any member of staff or Councillor can access using their SCDC email address.

The LGC contains a wide range of articles and information on all things local government, from climate change to community cohesion, so should be a useful resource for anyone planning policy review, or just those who want to keep in touch with the latest goings on this sector.

Users can access the site in one of two ways:

• Visit www.lgcplus.com/ and register as a new user using the council domain. This will automatically link to the corporate account
• Visit the SCDC landing page at www.lgcplus.com/subs-offers/south-cambridgeshire-district-council. This will walk users through the reg process.

Thursday 6 February, BBC Online: MPs call for tax cuts to save their local pubs

MPs called on the Government to reduce the tax burden on pubs and breweries in next month’s Budget as part of a Westminster Hall debate.

Saturday 8 February, Times: Valuable metals go to waste

More than a million electrical items are being incinerated or sent to landfill each week, with only a third collected for recycling.

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’. 

Cabinet

a)    Reviewed the Investment Grade Proposal (IGP) key points contained within the report and the IGP Executive Summary document at Appendix A;

b)    Approved the full business case detailed within the report and Appendix A;

c)    Approved the progression of the project to the implementation phase.

This decision was first published on Friday 7 February and so the deadline for call-in Friday 14 February at 5pm.

Cabinet

a)    Approved the fees and charges as detailed in Appendix B of the report to take effect from 1 April 2020 (unless otherwise stated) or the earliest feasible date thereafter.

b)    Noted the proposed variations to fees and charges in comparison to the prevailing inflation rate detailed in the report.

c)    Delegated to Heads of Service, following consultation with Lead Cabinet Members, authority to vary charges or introduce new charges during the course of the year where it is considered essential to do so in order to maintain income levels, improve the service offer to users and/or where opportunities arise to increase income.

This decision was first published on Friday 7 February and so the deadline for call-in Friday 14 February at 5pm.

Cabinet

a)    Received the confidential Ermine Street Business Plan for the period 2019/2020 to 2027 for information; and

b)    Requested that a further issues/options report be submitted to Cabinet in respect of the future direction and business objectives of Ermine Street Housing from 2021-2022.

This decision was first published on Friday 7 February and so the deadline for call-in Friday 14 February at 5pm.

The Lead Cabinet Member for Finance AGREED the recommendation of the Grants Advisory Committee.

This decision was first published on Monday 10 February and so the deadline for call-in is Monday 17 February 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/