Issue - meetings

To receive declarations by members and officers of the existence and nature of any personal or prejudicial interests in matters on this agenda.

2.1       Councillor Angela Harvey declared that in her role as a Councillor she with amenity societies and Councillors who had made representations, none of which involved a personal or prejudicial interest.

2.2       Councillor Flight declared she knew amenity societies and Councillors who had made representations. She also declared that agenda item 6 relating to 17 Sussex Street was in her Ward, and that she had no contact with anyone in relation to the application.

2.3       Councillor Devenish declared that he knew former Councillor Alastair Moss, who was attending the meeting for agenda item 2 relating to 23 Great Windmill Street.

2.4       Councillor Devenish explained that all four Members of the Committee were provided a week before the meeting 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 e-mails containing objections or giving support. Members of the Committee read through everything in detail prior to the meeting, often taking a whole day over the weekend to do so.  Accordingly, if an issue or comment made by a correspondent was not specifically mentioned at this meeting in the Officer’s presentation or by Members of the Committee, it did not mean that the Committee Members ignored the issue as they would have read about it in the papers read prior to the meeting.