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.

66a     Declarations of Substitutes

66.1    Councillor Kemble declared that he was substituting for Councillor Alford.

66.2    Councillor Fryer declared that she was substituting for Councillor Kennedy.

66.3    Councillor Pidgeon declared that he was substituting for Councillor Mrs Theobald.

66b     Declarations of Interests

66.4    Councillor Simson declared an interest relating to bias on application BH2010/01454, Woodingdean Business Park, Bexhill Road, Brighton, as the application was in her ward and she had publicly supported development on the site. She withdrew from the meeting during discussion of and voting on the item and did not take part therein.

66.5    Councillor Kemble declared an interest relating to bias on application BH2010/01382, Westdene Primary School, Bankside, Brighton, as he had publicly supported the application. He withdrew from the meeting during discussion of and voting on the item and did not take part therein.

66.6    Councillor Fryer declared an interest relating to bias on application BH2010/01382, Westdene Primary School, Bankside, Brighton, as she sat on the Children’s and Young People’s Trust Board. She withdrew from the meeting during discussion and voting of the item and did not take part thereon.

            Note: [Officer declaration] The Senior Solicitor, Ms Woodward, advised Members of the Committee that she had a connection with application BH2010/01382, Westdene Primary School, but that connection would not affect her advice on the application.

66c     Exclusion of the Press and Public

66.7    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.

66.8    RESOLVED - That the public be not excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item appearing on the agenda.