Issue - meetings

To receive declarations by Members and Officers of the existence and nature of any pecuniary interests or any other significant interest in matters on this agenda.

2.1      The Chairman explained that a week before the meeting, all four Members of the Committee were provided with a full set of papers including a detailed           officer’s report on each application; together with bundles of every single      letter or e-mail received in respect of every application, including all letters   and emails containing objections or giving support. Members of the            Committee read through everything in detail prior to the meeting. Accordingly, if an issue or comment made by a correspondent was not specifically mentioned at this meeting in the officers’ presentation or by Members of the       Committee, it did not mean that the issue had been ignored. Members will           have read about the issue and comments made by correspondents in the        papers read prior to the meeting.

2.2      Councillor Mark Shearer declared in respect of Item 4 - that he previously retained David Coffer Lyons to undertake a review for his property company, Sandford Capital. In addition, he has an outstanding review on another property - of which Fleurets are the arbitrator. He retains various agencies for my property company.

With regards to Item 6 – he declared that he is a Trustee of CGAT. He had not voiced any opinion on this planning matter within any CGAT meetings Whilst he believed he could objectively judge this application - in terms of perception, he decided to stand down from the Committee during its consideration. 

2.3      Councillor Robert Rigby declared in respect of Item 3 – that he had sat on the Sub-Committee that had considered the original application some years ago.

2.4      Councillor Geoff Barraclough declared in respect of Item 4 – that the site is located not far from his Ward.  He had visited the pub on previous occasions. He further declared that he knows some of the objectors and supporters to the application but that he had not spoken to any of the latter. He had not received any representations directly from either parties, only those that had been included in the member pack.  He had objected to the previous application but this was quite different to the current one. 

           He declared in respect of Item 6 – that the minority group on the Council had attended a meeting with CAPCO on the 27 September to discuss issues around the general economy and had not discussed this particular matter.