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 a pre-determination in respect of any item on the agenda.

In the interest of openness in relation to applications 12/1212M and 12/1213M, Councillor Mrs R Bailey declared that she was a Member of the Cabinet, however at no point had she expressed an opinion on the applications.

In the interest of openness in relation to applications 12/1212M and 12/1213M, Councillor Mrs J Jackson declared that she was a Trustee on the Board of the Silk Heritage Trust and Chairman of the Friends of Macclesfield Silk Heritage.  She was also a Member of the Christ Church Group and a Member of the Macclesfield Economic Forum now known as Make it Macclesfield.  She had not taken part in any discussions regarding the proposals and had not expressed a view regarding the proposals.

In the interest of openness in relation to applications 12/1212M and 12/1213M, Councillor D Neilson declared that he had been a Member of the Panel which had looked at the Development Agreement over 5 years ago, however he had not pre determined the application or come to any view on the merits of the application nor had he attended any presentations on the revised plans for the town.

In the interest of openness in relation to applications 12/1212M and 12/1213M, Councillor B Murphy declared that he had attended the meeting at which Wlson Bowden were appointed but only as an observer and had sought to facilitate a meeting between objectors and.  Notwithstanding those events, he had not finalised his judgement on the application.

It was noted that all Members of the Board had received a significant amount of correspondence from people relating to the application.