Agenda item - Chairman's Communications

                 Web-casting of Planning Committee Meetings

159.1       The Chairman explained that afternoon’s meeting of the Planning Committee was to be web-cast as part of a pilot study which would run until June 2009. Members were reminded to speak directly into the microphones and to switch them off when they had finished speaking in order to ensure that they could be heard clearly both within the Council Chamber and the Public Gallery above.

159.2       The Senior Democratic Services Officer explained that correspondence sent to those wishing to make representations at meetings included information to ensure that they were aware that meetings were to be web-cast and guidance was given relative to use of equipment available in the meeting room including operating instructions for the microphones.