Agenda item - Procedural Business

(a)  Declaration of Substitutes - Where Councillors are unable to attend a meeting, a substitute Member from the same Political Group may attend, speak and vote in their place for that meeting.

(b)  Declarations of Interest by all Members present of any personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any interest and whether the Members regard the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

(c)  Exclusion of Press and Public - To consider whether, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, or the nature of the proceedings, the press and public should be excluded from the meeting when any of the following items are under consideration.

NOTE:  Any item appearing in Part 2 of the Agenda states in its heading the category under which the information disclosed in the report is exempt from disclosure and therefore not available to the public.

A list and description of the exempt categories is available for public inspection at Brighton and Hove Town Halls.

82a     Declaration of Substitutes

82.1    Councillor Kemble declared that he was substituting for Councillor Wells.

82.2    Councillor Allen declared that he was substituting for Councillor McCaffery.

82b     Declarations of Interest

82.3    Councillor Caulfield stated that she was involved with the Local Delivery Vehicle. The applicant for application BH2009/01249, The Hyde, Rowan Avenue, Hove, is the Chairman of the LDV but Councillor Caulfield did not know the applicant in a personal capacity. She had sought legal advice on whether she had a personal interest in application and had been advised that this would not constitute a personal or prejudicial interest, and as such remained in the meeting and took full part in the discussion and voting thereon.

82c     Exclusion of the Press and Public

82.4    In accordance with Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (“The Act”), the Planning Committee considered whether the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item of business on the grounds that it is likely, in the view of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during it, there would be disclosure to them of confidential information as defined in Section 100A (3) of (The Act).

82.5    RESOLVED – That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of item 99, Consideration of Legal Matters as this item is exempt under Paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act (information which reveals that which the authority proposes to do).