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 or Lobbying - All Members present to declare 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, and to declare any instances of lobbying they have encountered regarding items on the agenda.

(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.

171a     Declarations of substitutes

171.1    Councillor Deane was substituting for Councillor Davey, Councillor Shanks was substituting for Councillor Kennedy and Councillor Pidgeon was substituting for Councillor Carol Theobald.

171b     Declarations of interests

171.2    Councillor Deane explained she been in correspondence with the applicant in relation to Application BH2011/02401 – Land at 27-31 Church Street; however, she had not expressed an opinion on these matters, and, as such, she would remain present during the debate but abstain from the vote.

171c     Exclusion of the press and public

171.3    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.

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