CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL
Dear Councillor,
A meeting of the Cambridge City Council
will be held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall on Thursday 21 February 2002
at 6.00pm and I hereby summon you to attend.
Dated 15 February 2002
ROB HAMMOND
Chief Executive
1 TO APPROVE
AS A CORRECT RECORD THE MINUTES
OF THE MEETING HELD ON 6 DECEMBER 2001
2 MAYOR=S ANNOUNCEMENTS
3 PUBLIC QUESTION
TIME
4 TO CONSIDER THE
MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE WHICH ARE AFOR ADOPTION@:
5 TO DEAL WITH
ORAL QUESTIONS
If members wish
to ask questions they should inform the Chief Executive in writing by noon
on the day before the meeting of the full text of the question to be
asked. A list of questions will be
circulated at the meeting, with the order having been determined by the Mayor
drawing names at random.
6 TO CONSIDER
THE FOLLOWING NOTICES OF MOTION, NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN BY:
(a) Councillor
Howarth
(1) That, for this year, the provision in Standing Orders for group leaders to present a preview of their Annual Statement to Council in April be suspended. This will not affect the presentation of Annual Statements at the annual Council meeting in May this year. (Standing Order 4 (1) (j) and the Scheme at Appendix (i) refer.)
(2) That the future of Annual Statements be
reviewed as part of drawing up the new political management arrangements.
(b) Councillor
Durrant
This Council is opposed to the construction of a new
bus station or any extension to the existing facility on Christ’s Pieces. The
officers are instructed to inform the County Council and any consultants
working on our behalf that this option should receive no further consideration.
(c) Councillors Durrant, Bradnack, Gilchrist,
Dryden and T Schofield
Further to the resolution of the Council on December 6th on future housing developments in the
Cambridge area, this Council provides the following information relating to
individual sites as investigated and numbered in the Cambridge Sub-Region Study
(Buchanan).
(The wording of the December 6th resolution
is in italics).
The Council, recognising that sufficient land must be
identified in the Structure Plan to meet the housing need identified in
regional planning guidance, including an adequate reserve for the post 2016
period:
1)
In accordance
with the decision of the Environment Committee, confirms that the Eastern Urban
Expansion is its preferred strategy;
Sites 187, 215
Marshall North works and adjacent sites
Sites 184, 185, 194, 208 Church End
2)
Advises the
County Council that the use of green belt land for housing, other than in the
Eastern Urban Expansion, should be confined to sites directly related to
employment growth, especially the sites close to Addenbrookes and specifically
including Clay Farm and the Showground site;
Site 179 Clay Farm
Site 180 Shelford Road
Site 181 South & West of Addenbrookes
Sites 132 & 133, subject to a definition of “close
to Addenbrookes”
3)
Advises the
County Council to include in its strategic reserve for post-2016 development
only those remaining green belt sites identified as recommended for development
in Table 1 of the officer’s briefing paper.
Site 178 Girton Corner, north of Huntingdon Road
Site 193 Girton Corner, north of Huntingdon Road
Site 182 Shelford Road
The following sites were not recommended for
development in the officers’ briefing paper and are not included in the
strategic reserve for post 2016
Site 123 Girton Corner, south of Huntingdon Road
Site 124 Girton Corner, north of Huntingdon Road
Site 137 West
Cambridge
Site 140 West
Cambridge
Site 132 South
& West of Addenbrookes (subject to a definition of “close to”)
Site 133 West
of Addenbrookes (subject to a
definition of “close to”)
Site 139 West of Trumpington Road
This Council further instructs the Director of
Environment & Planning to provide a detailed briefing paper on this notice
of motion for circulation to all members.
(d) Councillor
Taylor
This Council
welcomes the initiatives by the Cambridge Fairtrade Committee to encourage the
use of fair trade goods, and notes that the Council, as an important consumer
and opinion leader, should research, develop, and support a strategy to
facilitate fair trade where appropriate as part of its commitment to Local
Agenda 21 and in pursuit of the objective of sustainable development.
It
therefore resolves:
1. To express its
support for the Cambridge Fair Trade Committee and for the principles of fair
trade.
2. To ask the
Environment Committee or its successor under the new executive arrangements to
consider ways to:
·
promote awareness of fair trade issues and the opportunities
for supporting fair trade in the area
·
make publicity and educational information available to
local people concerning the worldwide impact of unfair trade and the
opportunities that fair trade provides to sustainable development
·
make the Council’s employees, the public and local
businesses aware of the Council’s resolution on fair trade
·
encourage the use of fair trade goods, for example products
carrying the Fairtrade Mark and products in vending machines
·
request the Council’s venues to stock Fairtrade products in
addition to other brands
·
integrate fair trade considerations into the Council’s
Environment Plan in support of the Council’s corporate objective to improve the
environment.
3. To ask the
Director of Environment and Planning to nominate an officer to liaise with the
Cambridge Fairtrade Committee on implementing this resolution.
4. To ask the
Director of Environment and Planning to report annually to the Environment
Committee on progress made with implementing this resolution.
(Note: A briefing paper entitled “Five Goals for a
Fairtrade Town, City or Zone” is attached.)
(e) Councillors
Reed and Talbot
This Council affirms its
commitment, within its total budget to:
a)
provision of community centres in areas of social
deprivation across the City; and
b)
acting to ensure that existing centres are open for
use by local groups and residents during day time and evening hours as a way of
meeting their varied needs
and
instructs the Community Development and Leisure Committee to consider how this
can be achieved by re-allocation of its approved budget resources if necessary.
(f) Councillors
Slatter and Nimmo-Smith
The Council is very concerned at the serious
social, economic and environmental consequences
of the scarcity and high cost of housing in Cambridge.
The Council welcomes the opportunity afforded by
the DTLR consultation on proposals to change the current system of planning
obligations and instructs officers to include in the Council's response strong
support for powers to require all but the smallest housing developments, as
well as non-residential developments which generate employment growth, to contribute
to the provision of additional affordable housing.
The Council recognises that planning obligations
for new developments cannot be expected to make up for the current shortfall,
and that the Government has a key responsibility to ensure that adequate
finance is available to providers of affordable housing in Cambridge.
The Council welcomes the planned visit to Cambridge
in March by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Regeneration and instructs
officers to impress on him the urgent need for Government help to tackle these
problems.
7 TO RECEIVE
THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEES AND SUB-COMMITTEES WHICH ARE AFOR INFORMATION@:
d Community
Development and Leisure
j Planning: 14
November 2001 and 12
December 2001
q Periodic
Electoral Review and Local Government Act
8 TO RECEIVE
NOTIFICATION FROM THE HEAD OF LEGAL AND DEMOCRATIC SERVICES OF THE SEALING OF
DOCUMENTS LISTED IN THE COUNCIL'S SEALING REGISTER AS HAVING BEEN SEALED
BETWEEN 7 DECEMBER 2001 AND 21 FEBRUARY 2002
(The sealing
register is available for inspection in the office of the Head of Legal and
Democratic Services.)
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL IS
SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2002 AT 6.00PM.