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

(a)      Disclosable pecuniary interests;

(b)      Any other interests required to be registered under the local code;

(c)      Any other general interest as a result of which a decision on the matter might reasonably be regarded as affecting you or a partner more than a majority of other people or businesses in the ward/s affected by the decision.

In each case, you need to declare

(i)        the item on the agenda the interest relates to;

(ii)      the nature of the interest; and

(iii)     whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest or some other interest.

If unsure, Members should seek advice from the committee lawyer or administrator preferably before the meeting.

      (d)       All Members present 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.

71a        Declarations of substitutes

71.1       There were none, it was noted however that Councillor Inkpin- Leissner was not present.

71b       Declarations of interests

71.2       Councillor Morgan referred to Applications A, BH2018/02607, Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, Pelham Street Brighton and B, BH2018/01973, Former Peter Pan Playground, Madeira Drive, Brighton and explained that he had sat at meetings of the Policy, Resources and Growth and Economic Development and Tourism Committees at which Landlord and Tenant issues in respect of this site (A) had been determined. As Chair of the E D & C Committee and as a Member of the P, R & G Committee when a different iteration of the scheme had been before and at the Locsal Economic Partnership meeting at which funding had been agreed. He was of a neutral mind in respect of the detail of both applications and would therefore remain present during the debate and decision making process.

71.3       Councillor Mac Cafferty, referred to Application B, BH2018/01973, Former Peter Pan Playground, Madeira Drive, Brighton stating that he had also been a Member of the Policy, Resources and Growth Committee when Landlord’s consent had been granted. He also remained of a neutral mind in respect of this application and would therefore remain present during the debate and decision making process.

71.4       Councillor Cattell, the Chair referred to Application A, BH2018/02607, Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, Pelham Street Brighton stating that she had acted as agent in relation to an earlier application a number of years previously, but had no involvement in respect of the current scheme about which she remained of a neutral mind in and would therefore remain present during the debate and decision making process.

71.5       The Chair, Councillor Cattell, also referred to the fact that she had received e mail correspondence from the applicant in respect of Application B, BH2018/01973, Former Peter Pan Playground, Madeira Drive, Brighton, she had not responded to it and remained of a neutral mind. She was aware that other members of the Committee had received the same e. mail’s and that they had also not responded.

71c        Exclusion of the press and public

71.6       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.

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

71d       Use of mobile phones and tablets

71.8       The Chair requested Members ensure that their mobile phones were switched off, and where Members were using tablets to access agenda papers electronically ensure that these were switched to ‘aeroplane mode’.