Issue - meetings

Declarations of interest

Meeting: 13/02/2017 - Planning Sub Committee (Item 5)

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

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Minutes:

With reference to item 7, Keston Centre, Cllrs Bevan, J Mann and Mitchell advised that they had attended a fact finding visit to a Pocket Living scheme in Lambeth in August 2016 prior to the submission of the current application. Cllrs Bevan and Carroll advised of their attendance at a similar visit in Islington in 2015. It was confirmed that officers had been in attendance on both occasions. Cllr Carter also identified that objectors to the Keston Centre scheme had circulated a mail shot for lobbying purposes to all councillors. The Chair further added that he had met with a number of objectors to the application.