Agenda

Published, Weekly Bulletin - Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12.00 p.m.

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

Items
No. Item

1.

Meetings and events from Thursday 20 August to Friday 4 September 2020

Date

Time

Name

Venue

Contact

Thu 20 Aug

Fri 21 Aug

Mon 24 Aug

Tue 25 Aug

2pm

Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee

Virtual Meeting – Online

Victoria Wallace

Wed 26 Aug

10am

Planning Committee

Virtual Meeting – Online

Ian Senior

Thu 27 Aug

 

 

 

 

Fri 28 Aug

10am

Grants Advisory Committee

Virtual Meeting – Online

Aaron Clarke

 

Mon 31 Aug

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Summer Bank Holiday

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Tue 1 Sep

2pm

Climate & Environment Advisory Committee

Virtual Meeting – Online

Patrick Adams

Wed 2 Sep

10am

Cabinet

Virtual Meeting – Online

Ian Senior

Thu 3 Sep

Fri 4 Sep

 

Information for District Councillors and Parish Councils

2.

Road Closures for Week Beginning 17 August Relating to A14 Improvements pdf icon PDF 125 KB

Please find attachedroad closures information for week commencing 17 August, in relation to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

 

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

 

For all queries in relation to the main scheme Section 1 & 2: Alconbury to the East Coast Main Line, Section 3: East Coast Main Line to Swavesey & Section 4 & 5: Swavesey to Milton, please email: A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk

 

Section 6: Huntingdon town centre

Samantha Kedie samantha.kedie@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 our website.

3.

CCF Recovery Fund pdf icon PDF 321 KB

Please find attached a document that provides details of how community organisations can apply to the Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund.

General Information

4.

Media Monitoring

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The Council’s Communications Team produce a weekly summary of recent news items which is published in the Bulletin to help keep members informed of recent coverage of the Council.

Please contact the Communications Team for further information.

 

Date

Publication

Details

12/08/2020

Cambridge Independent online

Permission for new hotel at Imperial War Museum in Duxford is withdrawn after council admin error

Link

 

12/08/2020

Daily Mail online

EXCLUSIVE: EuroMillions winner Adrian Bayford can finally sell the £6.5m mansion he bought with £148m jackpot after council bosses let him keep state of the art games room he built with no planning permission

Link

 

12/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

Sewage treatment plans cause three way stink

P1 & P12

 

12/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

New company set up to drive CAM plan

P17

CA article

12/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

Letters: Easy to forget plans are joint venture

P28

 

12/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

The new team helping South Cambridgeshire’s businesses to recover

P44

 

13/08/2020

Cambridge Independent online

The new team helping South Cambridgeshire's businesses to recover

Link

 

13/08/2020

Cambridge News

Permission for war museum's hotel withdrawn following error

P11

 

13/08/2020

Cambridge Independent online

New company set up to develop CAM project

Link

CA article

13/08/2020

Cambridge News online

Duxford Imperial War Museum Hilton hotel: Council error jeopardises plans for hotel at Cambs tourist spot

Link

 

13/08/2020

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cllr Bill Handley interviewed on drive time about new Northstowe allotments

2h43m into show

 

14/08/2020

Cambridge Network online

Grow-your-own community flourishes at first Northstowe allotments

Link

 

14/08/2020

Fenland Citizen online

Familiar Fenland face lands top job at new unitary council in Northamptonshire -at a salary of up to £180,000 a year

Link

Reference to former SCDC officer

15/08/2020

BBC News online

Firms 'fall through cracks' of Covid support scheme

Link

 

15/08/2020

Cambridge News

Allotment work great for mental well-being

P15

 

15/08/2020

Cambridge News

Letter: A new bridge would ease traffic congestion

P15

Letter about North East Cambridge plans

17/08/2020

Ends Report online

Controversial new town could damage chalk streams, warns EA

Link

 

18/08/2020

Cambridge News

Letter: Meeting was a rubber stamp for flats plan

P19

 

19/08/2020

Gov.uk

Cambridgeshire to benefit from sustainable development initiative

Link

Protecting great crested newt populations: Cllr Bridget Smith quoted

19/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

Five-storey blocks for 80 new flats

P13

Planning application to be decided at Planning Committee

19/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

Village sets up e-bike trial

P14

 

19/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

Museum's hotel plans stalled by admin error

P20

 

19/08/2020

Cambridge Independent

First allotments for new town's residents

P32

 

 

5.

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 13 August, Guardian: Coronavirus halves July sales in UK pub, bar and restaurant chains

Sales at pub, restaurant and bar chains halve in July compared to last summer, as almost two-thirds of restaurants remained closed and consumer wariness sparked a surge in home deliveries.

 

Friday 14 August, Guardian:Opinion – local government reorganisation

Columnist Polly Toynbee writes in the Guardian about the Government’s proposals to restructure local government in its Devolution White Paper, to be published next month.

 

Saturday 15 August, BBC Online: Business support schemes

Small business owners say red tape is preventing them from receiving government funding designed to support them during the pandemic.

 

Sunday 16 August, Independent: Seven days to prevent a “wave of evictions”, MPs and charities warn

MPs and charities have issued an urgent plea for the Government to extend the ban evictions, amid concerns tens of thousands of renters could be forced to leave their homes after the moratorium expires in only seven days’ time.

 

Monday 17 August, BBC News: MPs warn of “wave of homelessness” when eviction ban ends

MPs have warned that England could see “a new wave of homelessness” when a ban on evictions ends on 23 August and have urged the Government to guarantee council funds to house rough sleepers for a year.

 

Tuesday 18 August, Metro: Attacks on bin workers rise 40%

Attacks on refuse workers by members of the public have increased by 40 per cent, with staff being stabbed, bitten and even shot.

 

Wednesday 19 August, Express: Council tax changes are “needed now” as payment debts reach £3.6bn

The Money Advice Trust says Council Tax changes are desperately needed because official figures show arrears have reached unprecedented levels with the LGA estimating over £500 million of Council Tax went unpaid during the first three months of the outbreak.

6.

View Planning Applications

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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. 

 

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.

 

 

 

Executive Decisions Taken Since Wednesday ...

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In accordance with the Access to Information Procedure Rules in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, any executive decision shall be published normally within five days of being made.  That record will bear the date on which it is published and will specify that the decision will come into force, and may then be implemented, on the expiry of 5 working days after the publication of the decision, unless called in for review by the Chairman of the Scrutiny and Overview Committee or by any five other councillors.

 

 

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’

7.

Community Chest Grants

The Lead Cabinet Member for Finance AGREED the recommendations made by the Grants Advisory Committee 31 July 2020.

 

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

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/your-council-and-democracy/access-to-information/

Other Information

8.

Newly-Published Items on modern.gov

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Agendas

·                      Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee 25 August

·                      Planning Committee 26 August

 

Decisions

·                      Community Chest Grants

 

Minutes

·                      Licensing (2003 Act) Sub-Committee 14 August

 

9.

The Council's Starters and Leavers

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Staff who have left

 

Name: Trevor Roff

Job title: Executive Director

Date left: 31 July 2020