Members are invited to declare any personal or disclosable pecuniary interests, including the nature and extent of such interests they may have in any items to be considered at this meeting.
If Councillors have any questions relating to predetermination, bias or interests in items on this Summons, then please contact the Monitoring Officer in advance of the meeting.
Minutes:
CM 40
Prior to inviting Members to declare any interests in the items of business to be considered during the course of the meeting, the Mayor asked the Monitoring Officer to provide some advice in respect of Unstarred Minute HC 53 ‘Residential Property Purchase’.
In so doing, the Monitoring Officer advised that there was a distinct difference in the strategic role of a Hub Committee Member and the planning role of a Development Management and Licensing Committee Member. As a consequence, she could see no reason why those Members who served on both Committees could not take a full part in the debate and vote on this unstarred minute at this meeting today.
Following this advice, interests were declared (and recorded) as follows:-
Cllr J B Moody declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Substitute Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr R E Baldwin declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee and the local Ward Member;
Cllr P R Sanders declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being the Chairman of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr J Evans declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of attending a Parish Council meeting for which she was a Member. In declaring this interest, Cllr Evans emphasised that she had also declared a personal interest at the Parish Council meeting and had expressed no opinions or voted on any decisions at this meeting;
Cllr T G Pearce declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee and a Council representative on the Devon Building Control Partnership;
Cllr C Edmonds declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Substitute Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr J Sheldon declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Substitute Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr B Lamb declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Substitute Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr W G Cann OBE declared a personal interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee;
Cllr J Yelland declared a personal Interest in Item 9(iv): ‘Minutes of Committees’ (Minute CM 43(d) below refers) and specifically unstarred minute HC 53 (Residential Property Purchase) by virtue of currently being a Member of the Development Management and Licensing Committee and Item 13: ‘Community Governance Review – Initial Submissions’ (Minute CM 47 below refers) by virtue of being a member of Okehampton Town Council;