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:
In the interest of openness in respect of application 19/1392M, Councillor S Gardiner declared that all of the speakers were known to him because of the application being in his Ward, because he was a member of Knutsford Town Council and due to his involvement in the Knutsford Neighbourhood Plan. He had not been involved in any discussion involving the application.
In the interest of openness in respect of application 17/6471M, Councillor S Gardiner declared that he knew Councillor Q Abel who was speaking on the application.
In the interest of openness in respect of application 19/3420M, Councillor D Jefferay declared that he was the Ward Councillor and that he was known to a number of the objectors including Residents of Wilmslow of which he was a member and that he knew the Ward Councillor and Town Councillor who were both speaking on the application. Furthermore he had submitted objections to development on that site in his own name for the Residents of Wilmslow. In addition when he was a member of Wilmslow Town Council he was involved in preparing a submission for the Local Plan. He had spoken against the principle of development on that site as part of the Local Plan hearings however all this had been on the basis it was land in the Green Belt at that time. Whilst he had a leaning one way he had not pre determined the application.
In the interest of openness in respect of application 17/6471M, Councillor D Jefferay declared that he knew Councillor Q Abel who was speaking on the application.
In the interest of openness in respect of applications 17/6471M and 19/1392M, Councillor S Hogben declared that he was a Director of ANSA who were a consultee on the applications, however he had not made any comments nor discussed the applications.
In the interest of openness in respect of application 17/6471M, Councillor M Hunter declared that he knew Alvan Ikoku who was speaking as an objector by virtue of the fact that Mr Ikoku used to teach him.