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.

11a       Declarations of substitutes

11.1      Councillor Earthey substituted for Councillor Fishleigh. Councillor Lyons substituted for Councillor Theobald. Councillor Pickett substituted for Councillor Shanks.

11b      Declarations of interests

11.2      Councillors Loughran (the Chair), Hamilton and Nann declared that they had a predetermined view in respect of the applications on which they would be speaking. Having addressed the Committee, they would leave the meeting and would take no part in the debate or decision making process.

11.3      Councillors Earthey, Lyons and Pickett referred to applications sites located in their wards stating that they remained of a neutral mind. Mrs Hurley, Planning Manager stated that she lived close to the Gordon Road application site, some of the neighbouring residents were known to her and that she had had no involvement with the application.

11c       Exclusion of the press and public

11.3      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.

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

11d      Use of mobile phones and tablets

11.5      The Chair requested Members ensure that their mobile phones were switched off, and where Members were using tablets to access agenda papers electronically ensure that these were switched to ‘aeroplane mode’.