Issue - meetings

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

Councillor Dudley declared an affected interest in agenda item 6, 20-00303-FUL Calfridus Way Playing Fields, as Chairman of the Fire Authority, as the Fire Authority were in the process of making decisions about Networking arrangements. Councillor Dudley would leave the meeting for this item.

Councillor Mrs McKenzie – Boyle declared that she was a member of the Fire Authority but had no involvement in the networking arrangements.