Agenda and minutes
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Apologies for absence Minutes: Following a change to the membership of the Committee, an apology for absence was received from Councillor Miss. D. H. Campbell JP, who had replaced Councillor C. R. Scurrell on the Committee.
The Chairman further advised that, as the complainant in the matter under consideration, Councillor E. C. Tibby would not be participating in the proceedings. |
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: No declarations of interest were received. |
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Final Determination of Allegations of Failure to Follow the Code of Conduct [Note: the public will be formally excluded from the meeting at the point at which the Committee makes its deliberations on the above matter and the following resolution will be passed:
"RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the Committee's deliberations on the grounds that they will involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 7C of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, and that it is in the public interest to do so."] Additional documents:
Minutes: The Committee considered a report on alleged failures to follow the Code of Conduct.
On 22nd November 2007 the Standards Board for England had referred to the Monitoring Officer for local investigation three allegations, made by Councillor E. C. Tibby, that Councillor C. J. Tidmarsh had failed to comply with the Code of Conduct, in that at a meeting of the Planning Committee on 16th July 2007 Councillor Tidmarsh had: failed to declare a prejudicial interest; misused his official position and acted improperly to seek to secure an advantage for a friend; and failed to correctly declare a personal interest.
A report of the Investigating Officer dated 27th March 2008, which had found in respect of two of the allegations that Councillor Tidmarsh had not failed to follow the Code and in respect of one allegation that Councillor Tidmarsh had failed to follow the Code, was considered. The Committee was asked to consider whether, based on the facts set out in the report, it agreed with the Investigating Officer's findings.
RESOLVED: (a) that in respect of the first allegation that Councillor Tidmarsh failed to correctly declare his interest in planning application B/2007/0498, Councillor Tidmarsh failed to comply with the Code as alleged but no sanction be imposed as it was felt that Councillor Tidmarsh had made a genuine mistake which had led him to make an inaccurate declaration; (b) that in respect of the second allegation that Councillor Tidmarsh failed to declare a prejudicial interest in planning application B/2007/0498, Councillor Tidmarsh did not fail to comply with the Code as alleged; and (c) that in respect of the third allegation that Councillor Tidmarsh misused his official position and acted improperly to seek to secure an advantage for a friend, Councillor Tidmarsh did not fail to comply with the Code as alleged.
(A copy of the Committee's full decision, together with the reasons for it, is appended.)
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