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.

129a     Declarations of substitutes

129.1    There were none.

129b     Declarations of interests

129.2    Councillors Miller, Gilbey Moonan and O’Quinn stated that they had been lobbied in respect of Application A, BH2018/02751, Enterprise Point and 16-18 Melbourne Street, Brighton and Application B, BH2019/00293, Former Peter Pan Playground Site, Madeira Drive, Brighton but that they remained of a neutral mind and would remain present at the meeting and would take part in the debate and debate and decision making process.

129.3    Councillor Littman stated that he had received a letter from the MP for Brighton Kemptown in respect of Application B, BH2019/00293, Former Peter Pan Playground Site, Madeira Drive, Brighton he remained of a neutral mind and would remain present at the meeting and would take part in the debate and decision making process. It was noted that this correspondence had been sent to all Members of the Committee and it was confirmed that all remained of a neutral mind and would remain present during the debate and decision making process.

129c     Exclusion of the press and public

129.4    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.

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

129d     Use of mobile phones and tablets

129.6    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’.