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.

33A       Declaration of Substitutes

33.1       Councillors Hawkes and Pidgeon were in attendance for Councillors McCaffery and C Theobald respectively.

33B       Declarations of Interest

33.2       Councillor Pidgeon explained that he had been invited by the applicants to visit the Asda site, Application BH2009/00508 in his capacity as a Ward Councillor. In answer to questions by the Solicitor to the Committee he confirmed that he had not predetermined the application, remained of a neutral mind and intended to remain at the meeting during the discussion and voting thereon.

33C       Exclusion of Press and Public

33.4       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 was 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).

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