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Declaration of Interests and Whipping Arrangements

Meeting: 08/05/2017 - Planning Committee (Item 80)

Declarations of Interest

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

Minutes:

Councillor R.J. Deeming (Chairman), declared an Other Disclosable Interest in Agenda Items 6 and 7 (Planning Applications 2016/1085 and 2016/1087 – Longbridge East and River Arrow Development Site, Groveley Lane, Cofton Hackett) in that he was a patient at Barnt Green Surgery.

 

Councillor C. Allen-Jones declared an Other Disclosable Interest in Agenda Items 6 and 7 (Planning Applications 2016/1085 and 2016/1087 – Longbridge East and River Arrow Development Site, Groveley Lane, Cofton Hackett) in that he was a patient at Barnt Green Surgery.

 

Councillor L.J. Turner declared an Other Disclosable Interest in Agenda Item 10 (Planning Application 2017/0207 – Wythall Park, Silver Street, Wythall, Bromsgrove) in that as a Trustee of Wythall Community Association, the Applicants, he would be withdrawing from the meeting for its discussion.  Councillor Turner withdrew from the meeting for the duration of the debate on the item and took no part the  Committee’s consideration and voting on the matter.

 

Councillor P.J. Whittaker declared an Other Disclosable Interest in Agenda Item 8 (Planning Application 2016/1182 – land to the rear of 173 Finstall Road, Bromsgrove) in that, as the Applicant’s Agent was known to him and had been employed by him, he would be withdrawing from the meeting for its discussion.   Councillor Whittaker withdrew from the meeting for the duration of the debate on the item and took no part in the Committee’s consideration and voting on the matter.

 

In respect of Agenda Items 6 and 7 (Planning Applications 2016/1085 and 2016/1087 – Longbridge East and River Arrow Development Site, Groveley Lane, Cofton Hackett),  Councillor C.J. Spencer questioned whether, as a Parish Council Member of Cofton Hackett Parish Council, she was still eligible to participate in the Committee’s consideration of the Applications.  Officers confirmed that she was.