 a'r un i'n eistedd i'r ambi o gwneud yma e evolving fel y maeddaeth. Rhaid i. Rhaid i'n defnyddio'r gwn ystod yn ei sprwydd iawn, ddignirio. Ddiolch, fe edrychu. Felly, gyda o gyfrinwyr, ar ôl eu cyfnodau arno i gwaith, ac i fy modd alsid ymweithio i bwysig y cael yma o nodd termfyn Cymru. Mae yna Brydget Smyth yn yng Nghymru. I'r honno yn Llywodraeth Cymru, a hynny i'r cael ei bod yn y Gymraeg. byddwn ni'n gofynu gwrdd o gyrswys ynglyn â bwrddol, rwyf yn rhan o'r ddod am ymhell i ni, a ddwy'r busbol argyrchafol i bach o'r drefnidol. A wef adnoddach nhw'n gwrdd ar y cyfrciad ar y gyfer hynny, a'r gyrwch ar eich gwrdd o'r dod yn ffwrddol, ac mae'r ddod o'r goeg yn ffwrddol ynglyn am fyall yn cael cwrdd. Fy rydyn ni'n meddwl gweithio'r bydd, rydych chi'n caen bwyng ymweld ac rydych chi'n meddwl microphone's muted unless you're actually speaking, and if you'd like to speak, could you notify us in the chat, but the chat is just for notifying that you wish to speak, please. So normal procedure at cabinet is that votes are taken by affirmation, and we'll continue to do that, but when we move to a vote on any item, I'll ask if members agree with a proposal, and if any member wants to either vote against a proposal or to abstain, then we'll actually take a role call of all the members, and I'll ask each cabinet member to speak into their microphone so that the vote is clear to everybody, to the rest of cabinet and to the members watching the webcast, the members should respond for, against or abstain when their name is called. So I won't go through asking cabinet members to introduce themselves, their name should all appear on the screen, and I think it also says which ward members represent as well. So as well as the cabinet, we have scrutiny here, so we have Councillor Grenville Chamberlain, who is the chair of the scrutiny and overview committee present in the meeting. And I think we have a number of non cabinet members as well, who may well choose choose to speak. On top of that, we have our key officers, Liz Watts, our chief executive, Stephen Kelly, director of shared planning service, Jeff memory head of transformation, Rory McKenna, our monitoring officer, plus various other support staff. So moving on, so we're trying today to do a paperless meeting. So if it's a bit clunky, please bear with us. I have screens all over the place and split screens, and it's all a bit complicated, but we're trying very hard to move to be a paperless council, and this is members demonstrating that we can do our bit as well as our officers doing their bit on that. So starting on the agenda, as leader, I've got no announcements this time round, so we're going to move on to apologies for absence. So Jonathan, as our responsible democratic services officer, are there any apologies for absence please? Thank you, leader. We've received one apologies for absence from Councillor Judith Riffith. Thank you. And Councillor Riffith is the vice chair of the scrutiny and over the committee. Are there any other apologies? Anyone would like to notify us of? Nope. Okay. So moving on to item three is declarations of interest. So do members have any interest to declare in relation to any item of business on the agenda? And if an interest subsequently becomes apparent later in the meeting, could you just raise it at that point? Nope. So no declarations of interest. So moving on to the minutes of the previous meeting. This is where I find my papers are at the very end instead of the very beginning. So, the minutes start at page one. And I will go through page by page. So page one, page two, page three, page four, page five, page six and finally on page seven. So, righty ho. So do we all, sorry, do we all accept that those meetings are a correct record of the last meeting? Agreed. Does anybody district want to vote against? I will abstain. Leader, I will abstain since I wasn't present at the meeting. Thank you very much. So that was Councillor Neil Goff is going to abstain as he wasn't present at the meeting. So cabinet therefore agrees they approve of the minutes as a correct record by affirmation. So moving on to item five are public questions. And I believe that we have one public question ahead of us from Mr Daniel Fulton. And have we got Mr Daniel Fulton in the meeting? Yes, I'm here. Hello, Mr Fulton. So welcome. I hope you're keeping well in these difficult times. Nice to see you. Would you like to place your question? Sure. The Fuse Land Consortium is in the process of conducting an audit of the council's PS2 planning performance returns submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government between Q3 2018 and Q3 2020. To date, our volunteers have completed the audit for Q2 2020. Although the council reported to the Ministry that 85% of decisions on non-major applications were taken within the statutory determination period, or within the period of a planning performance agreement, or an extension of time meeting the requirements set before Parliament by the Secretary of State, the actual performance statistic was only 9%. Councilors have been provided with a document detailing our results on a decision-by-decision basis. In light of the serious nature of the irregularities discovered in the Q2 2020 return, will the portfolio holder for planning ask the council's internal auditing to audit the PS2 planning performance returns for non-major applications from Q3 2018 to Q3 2020. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm going to ask Councillor Tumri Hawkins as the lead member for planning to answer your question, Mr Fulton. Thank you, leader. Mr Fulton, thank you for your question. Firstly, I wish to reiterate that we do take our legal obligations extremely seriously and we do take care to report accurate data as we are required to do. Secondly, the submission from Fuse Lane consortium has no supporting explanation as to how those figures have been arrived at, and the council does not agree with the performance figures arrived at by Fuse Lane consortium. And we remain of the view that the Q2 2020 piece indeed correct. But while on that basis, I do not consider it necessary to undertake an audit of what will be thousands of decisions made since 2018, but given the continued time being spent by our officers on responding to this matter and the work of Fuse Lane consortium volunteers and my desire to provide reassurance on this issue, I am happy to ask that the internal audit team review and report on the council's Q2 2020 submission. This will, I hope, allow any wider concerns you might have on the matter. Thank you. Thank you very much, Councillor Hawkins. Mr Fulton, do you have a secondary question, a follow-up question you'd like to ask? I don't, but I would just like to thank Councillor Hawkins for her very reasonable response, and I look forward to seeing the report in due course. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr Fulton. All right. So we're moving on now to item six, and that's issues arising from the scrutiny and overview committee, and I'd like to invite Councillor Grenville Chamberlain to present this report. Good morning all, thank you, leader. I'd really just like to focus on the update to policing matters, so you will be aware that we had a very successful hour of time with the Chief Constable who attended our meeting, and he provided some extremely detailed answers to our questions. I think the thing that I would like to focus on is to encourage all members to please arrange that any members of the public who see something which they think is out of the ordinary, and perhaps incorrect, they want to report it to the police, whereas so much of the police activity nowadays is focused around intelligence. As a result of that intelligence they've had a great deal of success in closing down a number of drug producing plants, including one here in Hardwick, I'm horrified to say, and the Chief Constable is keen that we should continue to do so, and they will follow up and investigate as the intelligence quickly is developed. Other than that, the report I think stands as it is. It was an excellent meeting once again, but I'm happy to take any questions, leader. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed, Councillor Chamberlain, and my thanks to the members of your committee, and for the lovely brevity of this report as well, which is always, at least matters, I'm very aware in my neck of the woods of a very alarming rise in catalytic converter thefts as well. Next time you speak to the police it would be interesting to know how they're targeting that, which does appear to be seriously organised crime, and very aggressive actually, quite very intimidating. So do any cabinet members have any questions for Councillor Chamberlain? Do any other members have any questions for Councillor Chamberlain? No, move on. Excellent report. Thank you very much indeed, Councillor Chamberlain. Thank you to your committee and the members, you're asked to note the report. Thank you, leader. Thank you. So moving on now to the actions taken under the chief executives delegated powers, which have been, you know, have been enhanced because of the pandemic situation, and these pertain mainly to allocation of grants and monies coming from the government. Are there any questions from any members in relation to this report? Any questions from anybody else? Okay, so this report is similarly just for noting. So moving on to the item eight, which is on page 15, it's a large report from 15 to 256, and this is the authority monitoring report for Greater Cambridge 2019-50 2020. Councillor Tumwee Hawkins is going to move the recommendation, and I believe Councillor Aiden Van Der Wai is going to be seconding it. So if I could ask Councillor Hawkins to introduce this, please. Thank you, leader. Yes, as you've said, it's quite a large report, but a lot of work has gone into it. So firstly, I would like to thank all our officers for the massive work that has gone into preparing this report, especially during the period of lockdown that we've had and working from home with all its challenges. The annual monitoring report is a document that we are required by government to produce, and I'm pleased to say we are such have taken great care to ensure that we produce an accurate picture of the impact of our planning policies on the district and of the progress that we're making against the local development scheme. This report is produced jointly with Cambridge City and covers the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, and just to remind us that the adopted policies for this period are the local plans for both city and south camps adopted in 2018, and the four area action plans which are the Cambridge East, Cambridge South Fringes, Northwest Cambridge and Nostal AAPs. I don't want to take too much time, but just to highlight some key findings here. We are making very good progress with our greater Cambridge local plan, which we are developing together with the city, and in my recall we had a very successful first conversation, issues and options consultation in January and February 2020. Its reach was way beyond what we've had in the past, and the responses we received have been very helpful indeed in helping us towards preparing the joint local plan, and we are working well with our Cambridge City partners, glad to say, and with other organisations that we're required to work with under the duty to cooperate, especially to address cross boundary issues. We didn't make new neighbourhood plans in that period, but since then we now have some villages progressing well with the neighbourhood plans, and we continue to encourage villages who want to to create neighbourhood plans. In terms of the number of dwellings that we were able to deliver in that period, we had 1,567 dwellings built, of which 1,107 were in South Cambridgeshire, and also 37% of four houses built in South Cairns were affordable housing, and for those who are quite interested in renewable energy, I'm happy to say that we had 2.4169 megawatts of renewable energy installed in Greater Cambridge, of which 2.4 of that was in South Cairns. The actual tables that show the housing delivery numbers in detail is in Appendix 2 on page 170 of the report, and it's a series of charts which give the full details, but I'm happy to take questions after which I would recommend that we notes the report as required on page 15 of our cabinet papers. Thank you, Llywydd. Thank you very much, Councillor Hawkins. Councillor Van Der Wire, do you want to speak on this at this point? No, I'll think at the end if I'm sorry. Okay, right. Have we any questions from cabinet members? No, okay. Any questions from any other members who are present in the meeting? Councillor Anna, can you put it in the chat, please, if you want to speak? I've got Councillor Anna Bradman first. Thank you very much, Llyda. I just wanted to ask, and it may be a matter of misunderstanding, but I just wanted to ask if I could have some clarity looking at its page 180, 182 of our agendas, and probably, I can't actually see what number it is in the report because the numbers overwrite each other, but it's about gypsy and traveller pitches, so 182 in our agenda. I just wanted some clarity about whether it was, I think I read in the report that we realised we had sufficient traveller pitches, and that's why we didn't have any new ones since 2016. I just wondered if I could have some clarity there, some explanation. Thank you. Councillor Hawkins, do you want to answer this, or do you want to defer to an officer? I think my recollection is that we had allocated some in the current local plan, so we do have enough as it stands, but we will be reviewing that obviously within the new local plan work as we are going along. It was my understanding that we had sufficient allocation as things stand at the moment. Would Mr Kelly like to add anything to that? Thank you, Leader. Just to confirm that, at the local plan examination, the council's evidence that was submitted suggested that we had sufficient numbers of pitches for the need identified at that time. You'll be aware that the government's definition of gypsies and travellers actually changed during the plan period, but we are undertaking jointly with neighbouring authorities a new need assessment to help inform the new local plan, given that the inspector at the time did have some questions about the approach. So our policies at the moment are to support effectively applications subject to specific criteria rather than to include particular allocations in the adopted local plan. Thank you very much, Mr Kelly. Okay, moving on. Councillor Claire Daunton, we'd like to ask your question. Thank you, Leader. Yes, my question relates to 3.79 on pages 62 over onto 63 of the agenda papers, and this is the section on listed buildings. I just wanted some reassurance that we are working on updating our guidance to owners of listed buildings on energy efficiency, because I know that Historic England are working on that, so I just wanted reassurance that we are up to speed and up to date on the latest energy technology that's suitable for listed buildings. Thank you very much. Yes, an issue that's close to my heart as I sit wrapped in wool in my freezing cold-listed building here. So, Councillor Hawkins, do you want to take that, or do you want to ask the other? I thank you, Councillor Daunton. I can definitely assure you that we are working on that. I know that the built natural environment team currently have a project on going looking at updating advice to owners of heritage buildings on what they can do to improve energy efficiency of their homes. Once I have some more information on how far we are with that, I think probably you'll be the first to know, because I know you are quite keen on that. Can I be number two in the list, please? Thank you. Mr Kelly, do you want to add anything to that? Not significantly, no. We are very live to the objective of trying to support owners in listed buildings and in conservation areas in appropriate alternative technologies. We are also working to see how colleagues in building control, who have particular expertise in obviously energy management in buildings, might be able to assist in that. But as Councillor Hawkins said, perhaps we can provide an update to you on timelines and actions. Thank you. Lovely. So, I am seriously very interested in this bearing in mind in South Cambridgeshire. We have so many conservation areas and so many listed buildings. There is a sense that it is not a level playing field for those of us who have cold, leaky old buildings that we are looking after for future generations, but facing very, very high fuel bills and very cold homes as a consequence. It would be really nice if we as a local authority could be leading the way in this and doing some really innovative stuff that could be picked up with other areas as well. So, that is very exciting work. Sorry, Lleedon, might I ask another question? I am really sorry. I marked this out and I can't find it now where I have marked it. So, I will try to be as brief as possible. Somewhere in the report, it mentions whole life housing. Also, it mentions making sure that any extensions etc are fit for purpose for the whole life of the resident, as well as the whole life of the house. And I just wondered what effect latest legislation on permitted development had had on that. That is a really good question. Councillor Hawkins, do you want to? I am not sure I can answer that question in the level of detail that Councillor Dunton might require. Perhaps, Mr Kelly might have a point or two. I will see if I can offer some comment. Certainly, the government's recent changes to permitted development, which introduced a prior approval requirement, have started to focus on minimum room standards, but clearly that is some way short of our objectives around lifetime homes. In terms of obviously this report relates to your current adopted local plan and its provisions, but as we go forward with the new joint local plan, it is really important for officers and I know for members to see how far we can put a policy framework in place that will both help us with those prior approvals, but also which, of course, we only have limited control over, but also how we can support and encourage lifetime homes in every house that we start to see coming forward through the next plan. Thank you very much. Of course, this is very critical now, particularly we've seen with COVID the importance of people having homes which are conducive to their health and well-being as well. We need to be doing, as a country, we need to be doing more to be able to keep people safely in their own homes even in times of crisis. So, thank you very much indeed, and Councillor Daunton. Councillor Heather Williams. Thank you, leader. I just wanted to ask questions. Apologies, my page numbers, because I'm being very brave and I've gone paper free on my council agendas, which sometimes means that the online documents don't quite tally up the paper ones. I have a1.12 as my page reference on here, which is in the appendix 1, and it's just about the West Cambridge master plan, and later on, I think on a1.16, some other places, master plans are in the amber. So, I just wanted to say, is that, you know, because of perhaps I know the COVID impact was early on, is there some explanation why we're not quite on target of our master plans, and what sort of impact could that, if indeed it does, have on the five-year housing land supply, sort of how reliant are we on sites such as the West Cambridge? Thank you, leader. Thank you very much indeed, Councillor Williams. Councillor Hawkins, do you want to take that, or do you want to go straight to Mr Kerley? I think I will go straight to Mr Kerley on this one. Thank you. Thank you, leader. The West Cambridge site is obviously in Cambridge City Council's area, but the master plan that is being referred to, the Cambridge University submitted an outline planning application shortly after I arrived at the council in 2016, and that application has taken some considerable time because of the transport issues associated with it, but also in terms of some of the scale massing and studies that were done to support responses from local communities, but also concerns that officers had had about the layout. So that particular application is being revised, as the text says, and clearly we can't, until we've granted the outline application, we can't conclude the position on master planning, but that's why that site is marked as AMBA. The site is in fact allocated and already benefits from an outline planning permission for very substantial additional floor space, so officers are not at this stage concerned about the implications for either economic growth or delivery against the plan. Okay, so there was a specific question about the five-year housing land supply, so you're saying there's no, there's no impact. The West Cambridge master plan has no residential development upon it and therefore has no residential development. That's super. Councillor Williams, does that answer your question, or do you want any other points of clarification? I use that as one of the master plans that aren't placed as an example, but there are some others through the report, but I'm, yes, a bit more on stage, how that affects the five-year land supply potentially, but I'm happy to have an answer to that outside of this meeting if required leader, and I was just going to say on the list is buildings. It's also, we've seen a big impact on that with the solar together, which I know I've been helping residents with here and some of my family have buildings listed or conservation areas, and I think it is really important that we get something sorted on that because that way we don't want them to be able to, they're missing out on potentially schemes such as the solar together, which has been a really great initiative with them for the district council and the county together, so it'd be great if we could see something before that deadline. Thank you, leader. Okay, so okay, so I think it might be helpful actually if you and I had a conversation about what problems you think people are facing who want to put an application to the solar together, I think if we take that offline so we can just get a bit more detail about that if there's some specific issues. Thank you very much indeed. Councillor Jeff Harvey. Yes, thank you, leader. I want to refer back to Councillor Dawkins' interest in historic buildings and particularly how we can encourage better fuel efficiency and energy efficiency in historic buildings, and also very pleased to hear from Councillor Hawkins that sort of work is underway on that front, and I think probably as part of that work I noticed that some of our very helpful advice to residents has been updated on the historic fabric part of our website, but in fact we did have the historic buildings experts within South Cams come to present their plans quite early on in 2020 in January I think, and I think probably speaking also for Councillor Pippa Haleyings who chairs the Climate and Environment Committee, I think our hope was that obviously what we can do in terms of allowing people to make their listed buildings more energy efficient is to some extent constrained by a national policy, but as in all these things I suppose there's some wriggle room, and I think our hope was that we would be in terms of how those regulations are applied by officers on the ground, that there would be a sort of gradual cultural shift from a sort of permissive system to a proactive system if you like, in terms of actually encouraging people to do these things, and I think that's a very important shift of balance considering what a sort of perilous situation we are now in terms of climate change and the disastrous impact that that could have, and I am concerned because I mean these are not particularly current cases, but a few cases have come to my notice where it does seem that the balance is still too much in favour of an absolute kind of protection of the appearance and structure of historic buildings where it seemed a more progressive interpretation should allow us to go a bit further, and I just wonder what Councillor Toomey Hawkins would say on that, can we sort of encourage a sort of cultural shift towards a more progressive interpretation of the regulations? Thank you, you've excellently made points Councillor Hawkins. I mean we definitely want to be progressive, but we'd like to be progressive within the guidelines that that government has set us. What we wouldn't want to do is find that owners interpret in legislation in a way that enables them to do work which perhaps should not be done without proper guidelines, so I would say we will try and make sure that our guidelines are as clear as possible, but we would always obviously ask that building owners talk to us before they start to think about what they want to do, and I'm sure there are ways in which we will be able to discuss with them and advise them on how they can do this in a way that is progressive. I would always encourage you to those of you who have that expertise and experience please come and talk to me, come and talk to our officers, we are always willing to listen and to incorporate new knowledge into the guidance that we give to our residents. Thank you, I think there is some work to be done as part of the Oxford Cambridge Archon this as well, which hopefully I can feed into and then that can feed into our own Climate and Environment Committee, so I think we need to be possibly looking at the committee, Councillor Harvey, to be giving more of a steer and some good case studies and some good examples actually, so I agree we can do more on this, so thank you very much for raising that. So, Councillor Daunton would like to come back to another question. Yes, not to labour this point, just to come back very quickly, just to ask for some reassurance that our officers are maintaining close contact with Historic England on their latest thinking on this. Definitely, definitely. I mean a lot of what we do, we need to make sure that we are in close contact with the other authorities who organisations that are relevant to the work that we do. Okay, right, so in the absence of any more questions, so the recommendations set out in paragraph 4 of the report and it says... Something up for you, so sorry, so keen to get on. I'll pass the recommendation Van der Wijn and I'll come back to Councillor Hawkins. Very, very briefly, I think this discussion has demonstrated the usefulness of the report in making us think about what we're doing and feeding into the local plan and so just to thank officers for all of the effort to pull all of this detail together into this report, which is clearly an awful lot of work and it is useful and appreciative. Thank you very much indeed. Now my thanks to members for raising important issues as well. Councillor Hawkins, do you want to summarise? Just to thank everyone who's actually done some reading and asked questions, certainly jobs degree sales as Poirot would say. And to say that, as I said before, please, ideas are obviously always welcome. Those are open to listen and to talk and to chat because at the end of the day we are serving our residents. So if I can ask members to have a look at the recommendations on page 15 for A and B. Thank you very much, leader. Thank you. So just to reiterate, cabinet's recommended to A, agree the Cambridge City and Council and South Cambridge and District Council Authority monitoring report for Greater Cambridge 2019-20, included as Appendix 1 for publication on the council's website, and B, delegate any further minor editing changes to the Cambridge City Council and South Cambridge and District Council, AMR for Greater Cambridge 2019-2020 to the joint director for Greater Cambridge chaired planning. Do members agree with the proposal? Agree. Agree. Okay, does anyone wish to vote against the proposal? And does anyone wish to abstain? Okay, so cabinet therefore agrees the proposal by affirmation. And moving on to the last agenda item, which is the update on the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Councillor Bill Handley is going to introduce this and I'm very happy to second it. So Councillor Handley. Thank you, leader. The original Health and Wellbeing Strategy was agreed by cabinet back in June 2020. It was actually written mostly before the coronavirus pandemic effects were seen. This paper gives an update and details the progress of activities to date. Progress was inevitable, I think, that progress was slowed by the pandemic and given the circumstances, I think you agree that it's commendable that officers have actually done as much, made as much progress as they have and there are more red boxes in the table. And I really like to thank officers and congratulate them on perseverance and dedication to this work. So it's a snapshot. It's where we are. It's a work in progress. We will issue another update later in the year, which will no doubt include more on the COVID response. But the recommendation is that cabinet are asked to note the contents of the report and consider the impacts of COVID. I think I'll leave it there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. So does anyone from cabinet wish to ask any questions about this? No, so I have a question in the box from Councillor Sue Ellington, who I know has a long-standing interest in this. Thank you very much. And a happy new year to all I haven't spoken to this year so far. I really would like to congratulate the officers on the COVID community groups and the patchwork that they have done. They really have been excellent and I'm sure the residents are very grateful for that. And obviously the mobile warden scheme, which I'm just involved in setting up in my patch is great. But there's one area where I happen to have been receiving exercise from the referral scheme when the pandemic started. And I do feel I had one session via Zoom and that was quite successful. But then everything died. And those people who had really been benefiting from having mobility training were suddenly fine. They didn't have it anymore. I do feel some further efforts to put stuff online like mobility exercises would be beneficial. And I have a personal trainer and I do all mine online and it's great. So can we think about that please? Thanks, thank you very much indeed Councillor Ellington. Yes, I do two online Pilates classes to keep me moving when I spend most of the rest of the time sat in front of a screen. And thank you for your kind words about the patchwork and what's going on. And thank you also for your assistance in getting the mobile warden scheme up and running on your patch, which is something we both of us think is marvellous. So Councillor Handley, do you want to comment on the lack of the transition of the GP referral scheme into remote delivery? It's something that I think I will take away. I know that there's a lot farther than the officer responsible is on the call. So no doubt she's scribbling away notes as we speak. And I'll talk to you offline as well Councillor Ellington. Okay, would Leslie like to add anything there because actually I'm sure this is something she's looked into. Yes, attempts were made originally to provide kind of Zoom type classes. My understanding was that because of the demographic that they weren't proving popular and they didn't have enough uptake. So that's why they were for all intents and purposes shelved. But I can certainly go back to them with your comments Sue and get some feedback, which I can get back to you. Thank you. So I think we might find Leslie that people who weren't online at the beginning of this pandemic have been bought iPads and things by their families in order to keep in contact with them. So the situation might have changed now actually. So I think this absolutely is worth looking at, particularly as the gyms have all had to close and some of them are including my own are potentially not can't be made COVID compliant even when the restrictions start lifting. So I would appreciate that being looked at again because I think things probably have changed there. Thank you. Is that anything else Councillor Ellington? No, thank you very much. Super, thank you. Councillor Delacy. Thank you very much Llyda. And I'd like to add my thanks to Leslie and her team for all that they've done. It's a tremendous amount of work. And particularly page 258 of the agenda, it's great to see a large number of successes that we have been able to chalk up. But perhaps thinking about improvement, it's sometimes helpful to look at one's failures as well. And I wonder without any criticism that these failures have happened, whether Leslie or the or Councillor Handling would be able to comment on areas where for various reasons we haven't done what we were hoping to do. I've seen the red red lines obviously in the table. That's not quite what I'm thinking of, but failures that might instruct us going forward. And a second question, if I may, on the next page page 259 under 23 food vouchers, I'd be interested to know how that scheme has worked. I'm not quite sure what the last line of that, opening the high street officers means, I presume it's possibly a typo. And whether we've actually provided food parcels as well, in which case I hope they have been well above government standard. Thank you very much. Yeah, it's not a typo actually. Councillor Handling, do you want to take that or do you want to defer to Leslie? I think actually Leslie would be a better place to comment on this, yeah. Thank you. Sorry, just had to find the microphone and the video there. In terms of what we've not been able to achieve, I think part of that is, I'll very much have been focused on the kind of front line supporting the volunteer groups. So a lot of the business as usual has been postponed until we're through the worst of it. So I think we had that lull in September where things started to return to some normality, but then October hit. And again, we're very much focused on supporting our volunteer groups and delivering sort of front line support to residents. In terms of the food vouchers, so this was something that came out of the county COVID hub, support hub, looking at how we can address some of the inequalities that we're seeing which have been exposed as a result of COVID. And one of those was just helping younger families access sort of cheap and healthy food. We know that a lot of the larger supermarkets accept food vouchers, but if you're a young parent and you're living in a rural village and you may not have access or you cannot afford a bus or a taxi, then how do you access these sort of cheap sources of food? So we decided that we'd harness those opportunities of working with the high street officers. We knew that they were going into every store across the district. So it was about having a conversation with those stores to offer these vouchers to young families and then working with the younger children's centres through county, ensuring that young mothers knew about them so that we had a kind of two-pronged approach to ensuring that uptake was maximised as much as possible. Unfortunately, due to COVID, or through COVID, our third lockdown, we're not getting the food parcels that the government were providing in the initial lockdown, but what we are doing is we're working very closely again with the hub and we are ensuring that any parent that comes through to us that is in need of food, we are providing them with the food bank vouchers, which has now been extended to as an ongoing source of provision rather than it was originally a three week source, you know, you could have three lots of food bank vouchers and then that was it. Now it's, you know, until the pandemic is through the worst. Thank you, Leslie. Do those vouchers also allow people to get things like nappies and toilet trees and so on? Yes, so what happens is you would apply for, you would name or state how many people in your household and the ages, and you can state that you need nappies, milk, and specific provisions for the ages of your children. And they will also then determine how much to provide in a food parcel. So if you've got four, sort of a 16 and a 14 year old and two adults, you would get a much different food parcel if you've got two young children. Charlie Good. So I have every confidence that this sort of service being delivered locally means that it will be of high quality, unlike some of essentially allocated schemes. So thank you very much. Does that answer your question, Councillor Delaney? I'm enormously encouraged by that. Thank you very much indeed. The only comment I'd make is I hope we're encouraging parents to think about terribly nappies rather than just disposables if we have any influence on them in how they're bringing up their families. But thank you very much, Llywydd. Thank you very much indeed. So I've now got Councillor Claire Daunton. Thank you, leader. I've got three questions, so I'll be very quick. The first question is page 265, one of the items in Amber there. And it takes me back to my earlier point on the planning audit report. And it's sharing expertise on healthy living and independent living. And I just wondered why it's still Amber, it's still to be delivered. That's my first question. Okay, Leslie, would you like to respond to that? Sorry, I'm just looking up 265. I suggest you leave your camera and your microphone on, you're going to be needed. So you've got quite a few questions coming up. Yeah, just a second. So this is a health impact assessment. And this is the creation of the top 10 tips to future proof your home. Again, I'm just waiting to hear back from planning as to the best person to liaise with on that project. So it's really, yeah, then I can take it forward. So that's something that's very easily resolved. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, leader. Might I go on to my next two questions? So I'm back to page 258. I'm really just sort of reiterating what other people have said. Thanks to Leslie for all the work on the mobile warden scheme, which is already making a difference in this ward. And also to acknowledge the work of councillor John Williams on that as well, very important in terms of the funding. And then on the volunteers, what's come out of the COVID council members and officers response to the COVID crisis is how fantastic our volunteers are, and particularly the coordinators, and whether there is any plans to sort of harness that for the future, particularly the expertise, the growing expertise of the coordinators. Can I answer the last, the second point, leader first? Yes, please do. We were looking at ways of harnessing the COVID volunteer response last summer, but of course, events overtook us. The depth of the pandemic was such that we thought we had to leave it, but certainly it is something that we will attempt, we will look to do as soon as we think it's the right time. Thank you very much. Leslie, is there anything you want to add to any of that? Yes, this was a point that was actually raised at a leadership team back in December when we took this report to them. A briefing paper going to a leadership team tomorrow. Just as we recognise this as an opportunity to harness that energy and enthusiasm that's coming out of the community groups, but on an ongoing basis. So what we don't want to do is to see this dissipate. This is a real opportunity for us to work with community groups to encourage health and well-being right at the grassroots level. It's for walking groups, as an example, but actually broadening it. So working with community groups perhaps on a kind of self, they self-select what issues are important to them and we support them. So it could be through green issues, it could be emergency planning or it could be health and well-being. So this is something, as I say, that we're going to take to leadership team tomorrow to discuss further and no doubt it will be coming back to Cabinet fairly soon. Excellent, good, good, and I hope when we're all allowed to get together we can do something lovely for all those leaders in all the communities. Perhaps have a jolly, which would be nice. Sorry, just to comment on that. I think it's also really important for ward members as well. It's been very helpful for us to have the input into the COVID volunteer groups, so thank you. Did you have another question, Councillor Daunton? No, that's my three. Thank you, leader. I'm finished. Thank you very much indeed. Councillor Anna Bradnham. Thank you, leader. My question is page 267, and I suspect this might perhaps end up being again directed to Linda McFarlane, but it's relating to this creation of a mental health officer post. And certainly in my own village, being on the COVID support group, we have encountered this, that we find that there are some individuals who have required the expertise and cleverness of our support network to understand how best to handle individual people who have very specific mental needs. And I absolutely understand how much time that can take up. And I just wondered what other solutions are being considered, and whether there is any cross council working with the county council, or if it's only through the Camture and Peterborough Foundation Trust, or whether there's any support that's available through the county council that could be harnessed to help on this. So my understanding is that that post, and I stand to be corrected, was to have somebody in the house who could work as part of our multidisciplinary teams. I also am aware that we are offering mental health training to officers and the community groups, which has had a poor uptake, and I think we've been doing a further push in the last week or so. So I think there's lots on offer. Councillor Handley, do you want to add anything for that, and then I'll come to Leslie? Only as much as we mustn't lose sight of the fact that officers have been working very, very hard on the COVID response, and inevitably have had to go by the wayside, and unfortunately this is one of them. I mean, obviously they've been redeployed from business as usual to the COVID response, so I think the answer that's given in the red box is anchored, actually. Leslie, do you want to add anything? Yeah, just it's been a source of frustration for us. We've progressed really well up until August of last year in working with CPFT to second a member of their staff, but then, of course, when they have difficulties with their own staffing and they're also working flat out in the NHS at the moment. We had discussed recruiting somebody who was a private mental health worker and not connected to CPFT, but one of the reasons why we wanted to work with CPFT is because there would be an open door if we needed to refer for more support, and we think that if we go down that private worker route or private professional route, we'll still be working against a closed door, and that's one of the frustrations of working with CPFT and the NHS is when you're trying to get that additional support. It's very, very difficult to get hold of. I'm encouraged that we've got, now we've got the vaccination program underway, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and I think that this would be a good, I think spring would be a really good opportunity to take up those conversations again with CPFT. They were very keen at the time, they could really see the value of having someone working in housing, so I don't think that it's not that they're interested, they're just working flat out, so I think the best option still is to go with CPFT if we can. I completely agree. I think that's a very sound decision. Okay, and thank you very much indeed, Councillor Bradman. Councillor Hasall-Smith. Yes, thank you Chairman, a leader. I also was going to raise the mental health officer, because I'm very keen that we should get somebody to work with housing, certainly going to be quite useful to us. The other thing which I picked up was on page 266, air quality monitoring. I just wondered where we've got to now with buying and positioning monitors and just not to forget about the other things which are in here. Important as the COVID response is and working with people because traffic is building up again. Also, I wanted to ask about the recommendation, which in paragraph 10 it talks about this review is a six month review. I think we should probably be looking at reviewing again as we're coming out of COVID and whether we make that six months from now or leave it open. I suspect a timescale would be useful, but I'll take people's views on that, but six or nine months or something. Thank you. If I take your second point first, my gut feeling is straight after the summer is possibly the right time, but I'm interested to know what Councillor Handley and Leslie feel about that. I'm going to ask Brian if he's got any update on the air quality monitoring feeling that will come to Trevor, because we used to talk about this a lot and we'll talk about COVID now. Yes, so we've certainly got new air quality monitors, doctor around the district. There's not too many of them. Trevor might give some more accurate quantitative data and I haven't seen any up-to-date data from those monitors, but it's in the monitoring report as well as the health and well-being report. So we're clearly very active in this space and we want to make sure that actually the A14 was an example, wasn't it, where the contractors weren't taking any active measures and we persuaded them to do so. Yes, there was some tremendous action from local members there. So on to Councillor Handley, as far as when this is reviewed, we obviously need a plan that is a health and well-being COVID recovery plan, really, because we're going to have people in our communities still suffering from long COVID even after everybody's been vaccinated. I think the mental health problems are going to be seriously ongoing, the anxiety levels that everybody is experiencing, and then there's things like a serious rise in eating disorders and so on. And bereavement support, and there's going to be a heck of a lot of long-term health and well-being consequences, even once the virus has stopped running rampant around the world. So I just wonder what your views are on the best timing to do this. I agree entirely and something that we have been talking about. I suspect that from the spring we might be in a much better position to know how we can roll this forward, and that will be my plan, and I'll be talking with Leslie and Gareth and others to see how we push it on. Okay, so you'd rather we didn't commit your time from now, we let that evolve. I think under the circumstances of the moment we are still very much engaged in the COVID pandemic response. I think a week might be a long time actually in this, so can we leave this one on ice just for the moment, and probably come back to you in a week or two with a firma set of proposals? That's fine, there's no hurry on this, as I say, things change daily. Leslie, did you want to add anything to that? No, I'll go with Bill and Will Lee Ace and figure out a good time. That's lovely, okay, and then I've got a briefly speak from Councillor Bradman. Sorry, I just wanted to apologise for accidentally calling Leslie, Linda earlier on. Sorry about that. No problem, I'm sure. Okay, so if there are no more questions, cabinets recommended to note the contents of the report. Actually, I was meant, I'm seconding it, aren't I? I just wanted to say that I think it's absolutely phenomenal that we've actually stayed on track with so much of this. I would not have been at all surprised if 80% of this plan had been flagged red, quite honestly, with all the pressures we've been put under. So huge congratulations to Leslie and all her team, that they've managed to keep Michelle on the road really, and that they produced a plan that has been able to flex to deal with the terrible situation we're in at the moment so very, very effectively. So I think you've done brilliantly, and yes, and long may continue. So my thanks to you all, I'm sure you're all absolutely exhausted, but I know myself and my own residents are extremely grateful for everything that you've achieved and the fact that you've really kept business as usual, as well as all the awful stuff that's been laid at our door as well online is marvellous. So Councillor Handley, is there anything else you want to say and summing up? No, I think you've put, what I was going to sum up was the thanks and you've done it eloquently. I just say I 100% support everything you just said. Thank you very much indeed. So Cabinet's recommended to note the contents of the report and consider the impacts of COVID on the delivery of activities and services which promote physical and mental health and well-being. So do you members agree with the proposal? Great, agreed. Thank you. Does anyone wish to vote against? I note that Councillor Peter McDonald has had to leave the meeting, by the way, at 10.51 to attend a health appointment, which is appropriate. I hope he's fine. Anybody wish to vote against? And anybody wish to abstain? Okay, so Cabinet therefore agrees the proposals by affirmation. So that takes us to the end and just over an hour, the next meeting of Cabinet's scheduled to take place on Wednesday the 3rd of February 2021 at 10 o'clock. And thank you very much, everyone, for attending. Please can we end the live stream?