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.

186a         Declarations of Substitutes

186.1        Councillor K Norman declared that he was substituting for Councillor Mrs Theobald.

186.2        Councillor Smith declared that he was substituting for Councillor Cobb.

186.3        Councillor Allen declared that he was substituting for Councillor McCaffery.

186b         Declarations of Interests

186.4        Councillor Alford declared a personal and prejudicial interest in application BH2010/01967, Land adjacent to 481 Mile Oak Road as he was speaking against the item as Ward Councillor. He left the meeting during consideration of the item and did not take part in the discussion and voting.

186.5        Councillor Smith asked the Solicitor to the Committee for advice regarding application BH2010/02926, 25 Oaklands Avenue. The applicant for the application had attended one of his ward surgeries to present their application to him.

186.6        The Solicitor to the Committee asked Councillor Smith if he had at that time expressed a view on the application, and whether he had come to the Committee meeting with an open mind regarding the application. Councillor Smith confirmed that he had not formed or expressed any view on the application and came to it with an open mind.

186c         Exclusion of the Press and Public

186.7        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.

186.8        RESOLVED - That the public be not excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item appearing on the agenda.