Issue - meetings

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests and for Members to declare if they have pre-determined any item on the agenda.

The following declarations were made in the interests of openness:

With regard to application number 12/4082C, Councillor A Thwaite declared that he had spoken to Councillor P Mason but that he had kept an open mind.

With regard to application number 12/3807C, Councillor A Kolker declared that he had attended a meeting with residents but that he had made no comments and kept an open mind.

With regard to application number 12/3902N, Councillor P Groves declared that he had spoken to residents and called in the application.  Councillor Groves declared that he would exercise his separate speaking rights as a Councillor and withdraw from the meeting during consideration of this item.

With regard to application number 12/2808N, Councillor P Butterill declared that her son lived opposite the site and that she had discussed the application.  In accordance with the code of conduct, Councillor Butterill withdrew from the meeting during consideration of this item.

Councillor P Butterill declared that, notwithstanding the publication in the press of a letter from her regarding development on Greenfield sites, she had kept an open mind with respect to all the applications on the agenda for the current meeting, and that she would consider each item on its merits, having heard the debate and all the information. Councillor Butterill also declared that she was a member of Nantwich Town Council and Nantwich Civic Society.

With regard to application number 12/3902N, Councillor P Butterill declared that she had spoken to a resident but had not discussed the application.

All Members of the Committee declared that they had received correspondence regarding application numbers 12/3847C, 12/3603C and 12/2225C but had kept an open mind.

With regard to application number 12/3735N, Councillor A Moran, who was in attendance at the meeting, declared that he was the Chairman of the Beam Heath Trust, which was a landowner on Peach Lane.