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.

262A.    Declaration of Substitutes

262.1    Councillor Fallon-Khan was present in substitution for Councillor Caulfield.

262B.    Declarations of Interest

262.2    Councillor C Theobald referred to Application BH2003/751/FP, Chandlers Garage, Victoria Road, Portslade (Agenda Item 275) stating that she had become aware that the application site was her garage. The legal adviser to the Committee enquired whether she remained of a neutral mind and had not predetermined the application. Councillor Theobald confirmed that was the case and that she intended therefore to remain present during the debate and decision making process in respect of the application.

262.3    Councillor Fallon-Khan referred to Application BH2009/03156, Wellesbourne Centre, Whitehawk Road, Brighton. He stated that he had no direct interest in the application, although he was aware that that this scheme and other similar ones may have been referred to in reports he had received for information in his capacity as a Cabinet Member. He confirmed that he had never referred to the scheme directly either in opposition or support and that he had not predetermined the application and remained of a neutral mind. Notwithstanding that Councillor  Fallon-Khan considered it would it would not be inappropriate for him to remain present during the debate and decision making process he subsequently decided to leave the meeting during its consideration in order to avoid any perceived conflict of interest between his role as a Cabinet Member and as a Member of the Committee.

162C.    Exclusion of Press and Public

262.4    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.

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