Issue - meetings

Declarations of interest

Meeting: 30/07/2012 - Planning Sub Committee (Item 202)

Declarations of interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Cllr Schmitz declared a personal interest as he had discussed matters on the agenda in general terms with Cllr Allison, but had not discussed the merits or otherwise of any particular application.

 

Cllr Demirci declared a personal interest as one of the applicants had spoken to him during the site visit, but they had not discussed any aspect of the application.