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:
None formally declared.
The Chair outlined that inline with advice provided by legal services that Members and officers would be asked, in the interests of openness and transparency, to declare any personal interests in relation to agenda item 9, land to the rear 790-796 High Road N17, where the applicant was Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. This corresponded with the approach taken for the determination of the main application for the Spurs stadium scheme at Committee on 16 December 2015. Item 9, similarly to the stadium application, related to the primary activity of the applicant as a football club and as such the same process relating to the making of declarations of interest was recommended to be followed. In light of this advice, the following declarations were made:
Cllr Doron (Chair): Spurs supporter but affirmed that the interests of the people of Haringey came first in determining the application.
Cllr Patterson: no interest to declare
Cllr Basu: no interest to declare
Cllr Beacham: no interest to declare
Cllr Carter: no interest to declare
Cllr J Mann: Arsenal supporter but affirmed that the interests of the people of Haringey came first in determining the application.
Cllr Waters: no interest to declare
Cllr Bevan: identified that he attended regular community engagement meetings with Spurs related to the progress of the stadium construction works.
Cllr Carroll: Everton FC supporter
Stuart Minty, Head Development Management: Portsmouth FC supporter
Emma Williamson, Ass Director Planning: no interest to declare
Ben Burgerman, legal advisor - Spurs supporter
Maria Fletcher, clerk - no interest to declare
Tay Makoon, Member Liaison - no interest to declare
John McRory, Major Applications Team Leader – Sheffield Wednesday FC supporter.
James Hughes, Planning Officer - no interest to declare
Richard Truscott, Urban Design Officer – Rochdale AFC and Manchester United supporter
NairitaChakraborty, Conservation Officer - no interest to declare
Maurice Richards, Transport Planner – no interest to declare.