 OK, we're now live. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed, right? So good morning everybody to members, officers and any members of the public who are viewing the live stream of this meeting. So this is the meeting of South Cambridge District Council's cabinet and my name is Councillor Bridget Smith and I'm the leader of South Cambridge District Council and I'm the leader of the community and we have all members of our cabinet present today, including Councillor John Batchelor who's just recently joined and is leading on housing for us. I want to introduce them all. They all have their names attached to their pictures so you can work out who they are and we have we have quite a number of senior officers with us as well. So I'll just go on to see who else is present. The Chamberlain present, please, who is the chair of our scrutiny and overview committee. Right, do we have a representative from scrutiny and overview, please? No, I'll take that. Chair, it's Councillor Richard Blunt. I'm a member of scrutiny and overview. I'm not here officially as a representative, but I'm a member of the committee. And indeed, councillor, leader, I'm here as well. Councillor Anna Bradnam as a member of scrutiny and overview, but not expecting to speak today. No, OK, that's fine. Well, thank you very, thank you very much to both of you for introducing yourself as well. Similarly leader, I'm here, councillor Claire Daunton. I'm a member of the scrutiny and overview committee. Thank you, thank you to speak to it. Thank you very much. Yes, we haven't got a report from them, which is probably why we haven't got the chair or the vice chair present at this meeting. So do we have any other members of the council present who'd like to introduce themselves? Apart from the ones who've already done so. Yes, please chair if I may please. Yeah, councillor Henry Batchelor just here to observe. Thank you. Thank you very much. I've just seen councillor Heather Williams's name pop up. Would you like to introduce yourself? Hi Heather Williams and I represent the morning board. Thank you very much indeed. So I'm just going to get up the name so I can actually ask people. But somebody like next person, please. I see if I can get the names up. Nobody, nobody else. I think that's everybody. It's everyone. Jolly good. All right. Well, thank you very much indeed. OK, so I have one announcement I would like to make. Following a motion at a recent council meeting, I am just announcing that councillor Tumi Hawkins, who is currently our lead member for planning, will continue to do so, is going to take on the additional responsibility for equalities as part of her cabinet role. So thank you very much for agreeing to do that, councillor Hawkins. And we look forward to hearing from you regularly on the subject. So moving on to any apologies of absence. John, have we received any apologies, please? Good morning, Lisa. We've received no apologies of absence from cabinet members. But we have received apologies of absence from councillor Judith Rippeth, the vice chair of the scrutiny and overview committee. Thank you very much indeed. So moving on to declarations of interest. So do any members have interest to declare a relation to any item of business on this agenda? If an interest subsequently becomes apparent later on the meeting, just raise it at that point, please. Good morning, leaders. This is councillor MacDonald. So I declare an interest as a member of the board of the investment partnership. And accordingly, so I'll leave the meeting when we come to item nine. Thank you very much. And if we could have that noted in the minutes, please. Any other declarations of interest? Nope. OK. So moving on to minutes of the previous meeting, which start at page one. And I'll just go through them quickly page by page. If that cuts on to me Hawkins. Sorry, did you have a declaration of an interest or a matter for the minutes? I'm sorry, chair, not a declaration. But I think there was a belated apology from councillor Chamberlain that councillor Williams, Heather, wanted to tell you about. Thank you very much. councillor Williams. Thank you, leader. I just put on the chat that councillor Grenfell Chamberlain and asked me to pass his apologies on. He's not able to attend today. That's fine. It's not it wasn't. It's not like him not to submit apologies. So I'm not sorry. We missed those. He's unexpected. That's fine. He's a stickler for these things. OK, do it right. I've got the chat up now. So yes, if people would indicate if the cabinet members can wave at me, but to anyone else can put it in the chat that they wish to speak please. So any anything in relation to page one? Page two. Page three. Page four. Page five. Page six. Page seven. Page eight. Page nine. And page 10. OK, that's fine. Thank you very much indeed. So do you members approve the minutes? Agree. Agreed. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against the proposal to approve the minutes? Anybody wish to abstain? Yes, I wish to abstain as I wasn't present. Thank you very much, Councillor Batchelor. That will be noted. So cabinet therefore agrees the approval of the minutes as a correct record by affirmation. And moving on to item five. Do we have, I believe we've received no public questions ahead of this meeting? OK, good. So item six, which I shall introduce. So this relates to the Oxcam arc, which has now produced a set of arc environment principles, which are setting high standards for the environment for everything that goes on within the arc. And I've been fortunate enough to chair an arc environment working group, which is consisted of considerable numbers of experts both from government, government officers such as DEFRA, Natural England, the Environment Agency, and a lot of NGOs, including the RSPB, who've played a very, very significant role in this. But also the universities, the nine universities who are represented across the arc, and also the LEPS and Anglia Walker and so on. So a set of principles have been put together and have been published, and they've now been accepted by the arc plenary, which is the body which represents all the local authorities and the LEPS across the arc, and which there is representation on from all the council leaders, apart from those for Buckinghamshire. So they have accepted these. They have accepted that they are highly ambitious. They set really high targets, and they're not going to be easy. But if the arc is to be truly a green arc, which is what the leadership wants it to be and which government is supporting, and these environment principles have landed very well with government, we're led to believe, which is very encouraging, they need to be ambitious. There's no point in doing things by half measures, really. So the next stage for these principles is for them to go to all the authorities throughout the arc and for them to be accepted by each of those authorities. They are now being worked up by the arc itself into an environment strategy, which again, will come back to us and hopefully will then fit in very comfortably with all our own policies and our own local plans, and they will include things like doubling nature, which is an ambition that we already have. But there's also going to be a big focus on water, very much in reference to the challenges we have here of water shortages this end, but actually it's challenges of water management in terms of flooding elsewhere in the arc. But particularly if the arc is going to result in lots more house building, there has to be better use of water, but there has to be better management of the wet natural environment as well so that we don't see tragedies such as talk streams running dry. And these aren't problems as we know that we can sort out on our small local level, they can only be sorted out on a regional level. So the fact that we are part of this larger spatial plan gives us opportunities to do some quite radical things to improve our own environment, but to make sure that all development, including things like East West Rail that happens in the arc are built to the highest environmental standards. So we are asked to, let me just get this right. We're asked to endorse the shared environment principles which appear in your paper at annex one and to be support the development of an arc environment strategy which will provide for how the principles can be delivered. So I'm proposing this and I believe Councillor Aiden van der Waier is going to second it. And Councillor Van der Waier, do you want to speak to this item, please? I'll say a word of honour just very briefly. This is a really excellent document and the contents is great in the way you set out them. I think the real significance of it is the impact it's going to have. It has come out of the arc. So it's come from all the councils and the leaders involved in the arc and that gives it a lot of weight with government. Who's obviously leading on the policy on the arc in particular the spatial framework. But also we'll give it a lot of weight with local authorities when considering planning policies in particular. So I think the approach and the way that it sits in the development of the arc I think is going to be extremely effective. So it's really exciting. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes, I'm very excited by this and I must thank our chief executive Liz Watts who has put considerable effort into this as well as the lead officer on the working group. And she's still a very steady but quite speedy ship actually. And so are there any questions for any cabinet members on this item? No, and any questions from any other members of the council? Righty ho, good. So that's, I'll take that as enthusiasm. People share my enthusiasm for this. So the recommendations have been moved. So do members agree with the proposal as previously stated? Agree. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against the proposal? And anyone wish to abstain? Thank you very much. So cabinet therefore agrees the proposals by affirmation. Right, so moving on to item seven. So we've got now come to the point on our agenda where we need to consider whether to exclude the press and public from the meeting. And this is because the next items contain information which is commercially sensitive. Members of the public are advised that if cabinet agrees to exclude the press and public, the video stream will end. I therefore propose that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with section 100A brackets four of the local government act 1972 on the grounds that, if present, there would be a disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph three of part one of schedule 12A of the act brackets as amended. Is that seconded? Hansela van der Waier, do you want, I think you're seconding this, aren't you? Absolutely, yes indeed. Thank you very much. Do members agree with the proposal? Agree. Agree. Thank you. Anyone wish to vote against? And anyone wish to abstain? Okay, so cabinet therefore agrees the proposal by affirmation. Members of the public who are watching, this means that the video stream will now end. We thank you for joining us to view today's cabinet meeting, albeit a very short one. And I note that the next meeting of cabinet is scheduled to take place on Monday, the 24th of May, 2021 at 10 a.m. and we look forward to seeing you then. So Liam, could you please confirm when the live stream has stopped?