Issue - meetings

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with at item 11 below.

The Clerk advised of the admission of a new item of urgent business, the consideration of the minutes from the Planning Committee on 16 December 2015. The reasons for late submission were due to the length and complexity of the 16 December Planning Committee, the subsequent level of detail required within the minutes and the time taken to gain their appropriate clearance. The current legal advisor to the Committee was also leaving the Council this month and as such would not be available to respond to any legal questions Members might have on the minutes, it being the last ordinary meeting of the month. The minutes required consideration at this ordinary meeting to avoid consideration at a Committee during the Purdah period.

The Chair agreed to take the new item of urgent business under item 11 and adjourned the meeting for 15 minutes to allow the Committee time to read through the minutes.

[7.10pm – 7.25pm – meeting adjourned. During this time, Cllrs Carroll and Weston arrived and joined the Committee].