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 Harrison declared an affected interest in agenda item 3 by virtue of his lodger being an employee of Syngenta and having sought legal advice would take part in the debate and vote. 

Councillor Atkinson declared a disclosable pecuniary interest in agenda item 3 by virtue of his employer, WiredScore UK Limited, being engaged in discussions with a developer of the proposed Syngenta site and therefore left the meeting before commencement of the item.

Councillor Dr Barnard declared a disclosable pecuniary interest in agenda item 3 by virtue of his employer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, having global business relationships with Syngenta and therefore left the meeting before commencement of the item.