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:

39a        Declarations of substitutes

 

39.1       Councillor Janio stated that he was in attendance in substitution for Councillor Theobald.

 

39b       Declarations of interests

 

39.2       Councillor Miller stated that the leaseholder was known to him in respect of Application D, BH2019/01848, 20 Little Crescent, Rottingdean, he had not expressed a view, remained of a neutral mind and would therefore remain present during consideration and determination of the application. Councillor Littman stated in respect of Application J, BH2019/00993, 25 Preston Park Avenue, Brighton that the application was close to where he lived. He had not however expressed a view and remained of a neutral mind and would therefore remain present during consideration and determination of the application. Councillor Fishleigh stated in respect of Application G, BH2019/00591, 125 Gloucester Road, Brighton that in the past she had lived immediately adjacent to the application site, she had not however expressed any view in respect of the application, remained of a neutral mind and would therefore remain present during consideration and determination of the application. Councillor Yates referred to Application A, BH2019/01258, 30-36 Oxford Street, Brighton stating that matters in respect of the site had been considered by the Policy and Resources Committee and that he was aware of them in his previous capacity as Leader of the Council. He had, had no prior dealings with this planning application, had not expressed a view and would therefore remain present at the meeting during its consideration and determination. Councillor Yates also referred to Application M, BH2019/01687, 25 Auckland Drive, Brighton. He had submitted a letter of objection to this application in his capacity as a Local Ward Councillor and would leave the meeting during its consideration and determination and would take no part in the proceedings in relation to it.

 

39c        Exclusion of the press and public

 

39.3       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.

 

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

 

39d       Use of mobile phones and tablets

 

39.5       The Chair requested Members ensure that their mobile phones were switched to ‘silent mode’.

 


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