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.

190A     Declarations of Substitutes

190.1    Councillors Allen and Cobb attended as substitute Members for Councillors McCaffery and Barnett respectively.

190B     Declarations of Interest

190.2    Councillors Carden and Hamilton declared a personal and prejudicial interest in application BH2008/03117, 323-325 Mile Oak Road. The applicant was a sponsor of Mile Oak Football Club of which Councillor Hamilton was Chairman and with which Councillor Carden also had connections. It was their intention to leave the meeting during consideration of the application and to take no part in the discussion or voting thereon.

190.3    Councillor Hamilton also declared a personal but not prejudicial interest in Application BH 2008/03045, 19 Bennett Drive, Hove. He had taught the applicant’s wife a number of years previously. However was of a neutral mind and had not predetermined the application and therefore intended to remain present during the discussion and voting thereon.

190C     Exclusion of the Press and Public

190.4    The Committee considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any items contained in the agenda, having regard to the nature of the business to be transacted and the nature of the proceedings and the likelihood as to          whether, if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of confidential or exempt information as defined in Section 100A (3) or 100(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.

190.4    RESOLVED-That the press and public be not excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item on the agenda.