Agenda item - Procedural Business

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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.

Minutes:

24a        Declarations of substitutes

 

24.1    Councillor Taylor was in attendance as a substitute for Councillor Hyde, Councillor Wares was in attendance as a substitute for Councillor Theobald, Councillor Page was in attendance as a substitute for Councillor Mac Cafferty, and Councillor Marsh was in attendance as a substitute for Councillor Morris

 

24b       Declarations of interests

 

24.2       The Chair stated that she had received emails from residents regarding BH2018/01445 and BH2018/01645. She also stated that she had worked with the applicant for BH2018/01645 around 6 or 7 years ago on a scheme for the same site which was refused. She confirmed that she had had no involvement with the applicant since that time and had had no input on the proposal being considered by the Committee and that she came to the meeting with an open mind.

 

24.3       Councillor Taylor declared that he had received emails regarding BH2018/01445 and stated that he came to the meeting with an open mind.

 

24.4       Councillor Inkpin-Leissner stated that he had objected to BH2018/00316 as a local Ward Councillor and would leave the room for the consideration of the application.

 

24c        Exclusion of the press and public

 

24.5       There were no part two items.    

 

 


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