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.

166A.    Declaration of Substitutes

166.1    Councillors Allen, Kemble and Taylor were in attendance as substitute Members for Councillors Hamilton, Caulfield and Kennedy respectively.

166B.    Declarations of Interest

166.2    The Chairman declared a personal and prejudicial interest in relation to application BH2009/01845, Land Adjacent to 9 Challoners Close. On the previous occasion when an application for that site had been considered she had recently sold her previous home to one of the main objectors and had declared an interest. In order to be consistent she was declaring an interest in the same terms and would vacate the Chair and leave the meeting during its consideration and would take no part in the discussion or voting thereon. Councillor Wells, the Deputy Chairman would take the Chair during her absence.

166C.    Exclusion of the Press and Public

166.3    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).