Declarations of Interest/Pre Determination
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.
Minutes:
Councillor G Walton declared that he had called in application 16/3798M and in accordance with the Code of Conduct he would exercise his right to speak as the Ward Councillor and then leave the table and sit in the public gallery until he had heard all of the speakers. He would then leave the room and return once a decision had been made.
In the interest of openness in respect of applications 16/3798M and 16/0914M, Councillor S Gardiner declared that he knew the agents who had registered to speak, as they were former work colleagues. It was noted that some Members of the Committee also knew the agents.