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.

133A.    Declaration of Substitutes

133.1    Councillors Allen and Barnett were in attendance as substitution for Councillors McCaffery and Caulfield respectively.

133B     Declarations of Interest

133.2    The Deputy Development Control Manager, Mr Vidler declared a personal and prejudicial interest in Application BH2009/01888, Sussex Cricket Club Ground, Eaton Road, Hove by virtue of the fact that he was a Sussex County Cricket Club Member. He had taken no part in processing the application or formulating the recommendation set out in the report. Any questions arising from the Officer’s presentation would be answered by the case officer.

133.3    Councillor C Theobald declared a personal but not prejudicial interest in ApplicationBH2009/01888, Sussex Cricket Club Ground, Eaton Road, Hove by virtue of the fact that her husband Councillor G Theobald was a Sussex County Cricket Club Member. She confirmed in answer to questions of the Solicitor to the Committee that she remained of a neutral mind, had not pre-determined the application and would remain present at the meeting during the discussion and voting thereon.

133C     Exclusion of the Press and Public

133.4    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 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).

133.5    RESOLVED - That the press and public not be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item on the agenda.