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.

138a      Declarations of substitutes

138.1     Councillor Bowden was present in substitution for Councillor Kennedy.

138b      Declarations of interests

138.2     Councillor Hawtree declared a person but non-prejudicial interest in application BH2010/03739 as he had publically expressed his opinions on the site and proposals before being elected as a Councillor, and, as such, would withdraw from the meeting during the discussion and vote on this application.

138c      Exclusion of the press and public

138.3     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.

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