Issue - meetings

The report of the Deputy Monitoring Officer describes and explains the requests which have been made by each Member of Rostherne Parish Council for a dispensation to enable them to take part in debate and vote upon any matters relating to the Tatton Estate which come before the Parish Council for consideration. 

The applications explain that all Members of the Parish Council are tenants of Tatton Estate which owns all property in the parish of Rostherne, with the exception of the Church, the Vicarage and the Swan Hotel.

The Committee considered the report of the Deputy Monitoring Officer.  The report described and explained requests which had been made by each member of Rostherne Parish Council for a dispensation to enable them to participate in debate and vote upon any matters relating to the Tatton Estate which came before the Parish Council for consideration. 

The applications explained that all members of the Parish Council were tenants of Tatton Estate which owned all property in the parish of Rostherne, with the exception of the church, the vicarage and the Swan Hotel.

The Committee was invited to consider granting the dispensations requested.

RESOLVED:  That the Standards Committee grant dispensations for all eight current Members of Rostherne Parish Council, namely Edward Blockley, Akhim Eugene Fahey, Dominic M Fenton, Joseph Gate, Thelma Horobin, Julie Owen, Frances M Woodbine and Edward Ernest Wakefield, whose applications were attached to the report submitted, to allow them to speak and vote on any business coming before Rostherne Parish Council concerning the Tatton Estate, such dispensations to last until the next elections which were due to take place on 5^th May 2011.