Issue - meetings

To consider the above application.

Consideration was given to the above application.

(Councillor A Moran, a visiting Councillor, Parish Councillor Houlston, representing Acton, Edleston & Henhull Parish Council and Jean Kay, an objector attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

The meeting was adjourned from 12.20pm until 12.35pm for the Chairman to confer with the Board’s Solicitor and Strategic Planning and Housing Manager as to whether the press and public should be excluded temporarily from the meeting so that confidential legal advice relevant to the merits of the application could be given, following which the Board resolved

That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the item pursuant to Section 100(A) 4 of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (that is, the disclosure of information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings) and that the public interest in keeping the information confidential outweighs the public interest in disclosing it.

Once Legal Advice had been given, members of the press and public were then invited back into the meeting and consideration of the application continued in the public domain.

RESOLVED

That the application be deferred for further information on the position of the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment 2013 and for a site visit to consider the highways issues raised in the report.

(This decision was contrary to the Officers recommendation of approval).

(The meeting adjourned for lunch at 1.25pm and reconvened at 2.00pm)

(Prior to consideration of the following item, Councillors D Brown and Mrs R Bailey arrived to the meeting).