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.

36a           Declarations of substitutes

36.1          Councillor Wealls declared that he was substituting for Councillor Cobb.

36.2          Councillor Robins declared that he was substituting for Councillor Farrow.

36b           Declarations of interests

36.3          Councillor Wells declared an interest in application BH2011/01264, Blatchington Mill School, Nevill Avenue, Hove as he had attended the school on several occasions as part of his Mayoral duties. He remained of an open-mind and took part in the debate and decision of this item.

36c           Exclusion of the press and public

36.4          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.

36.5          RESOLVED - That the public are not excluded from any item of business on the agenda.