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:

20a        Declarations of substitutes

 

20.1       Councillor Fowler stated that she was in attendance in place of Councillor Williams. Councillor Hugh-Jones stated that she was in attendance in place of Councillor Littman and Councillor Osborne was in attendance in place of Councillor Mac Cafferty. Councillor Miller had sent his apologies as he was unable to attend the meeting.

 

20b       Declarations of interests

 

20.2       Councillor Hill referred to Application A, BH2019/01050, 26 Brentwood Crescent, Brighton, on which she declared a prejudicial interest, she had sent in a written representation (included with the agenda papers) in her capacity as a Local Ward Councillor prior to her appointment to this Committee. Councillor Hill explained that she would vacate the Chair during consideration of the application and that she would take no part in consideration or determination of the application.

 

20.3       Councillor Fowler referred to Application A, BH2019/01050, 26 Brentwood Crescent, Brighton, on which she declared a prejudicial interest, she had sent in a written representation (included with the agenda papers) in her capacity as a Local Ward Councillor. Councillor Fowler explained that she would leave the meeting and would take no part in consideration or determination of the application.

 

20.4       Councillor Osborne referred to Application A, BH2019/01050, 26 Brentwood Crescent, Brighton, on which he declared a prejudicial interest, he had sent in a written representation (included with the agenda papers) in his capacity as a Local Ward Councillor. Councillor Osborne explained that having spoken in his capacity as a Local Ward Councillor he would leave the meeting and would take no part in consideration or determination of the application.

 

20c        Exclusion of the press and public

 

20.3       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.

 

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

 

20d       Use of mobile phones and tablets

 

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

 


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