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 - All Members present to declare 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, and 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.

124a         Declarations of substitutes

124.1        Councillor Bowden was present in substitution for Councillor Kennedy, Councillor Rufus was present in substitution for Councillor Davey, and Councillor Robins was present in substitution for Councillor Farrow. Mr Breckell was present in substitution for Mr Towers.

124b         Declarations of interests

124.2        Councillor Rufus declared a person but non-prejudicial interest in applications BH2011/02886, BH2011/02887 and BH2011/02888 as he was the Chair of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

124.3        Councillor Bowden declared a personal but non-prejudicial interest in applications BH2011/02886, BH2011/02887 and BH2011/02888 as he lived close to the site.

124.5        Councillor Carol Theobald declared a person but non-prejudicial interest in applications BH2011/02886, BH2011/02887 and BH2011/02888 as she was the deputy Chair of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

125c         Exclusion of the press and public

                  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.

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