Agenda

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.

A period of up to 15 minutes is allowed for members of the public to make a comment, ask questions or present petitions.  Each member of the public has up to 3 minutes to do this.  A councillor may also present a petition on behalf of a member of the public.

The Constitution Review Working Group agreed recommendations at a meeting held on Friday 4^th July 2025.  As the meeting was held only one clear working day before the agenda for this Council meeting was due to be published, a report detailing the group’s proposals will be published in a supplementary pack for the meeting.

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To consider the recommendations from the meeting of the Cabinet held on 18^th June 2025.

To deal with any questions on notice from Members of the Council, in the order in which they have been received.  Each Councillor due to ask a Question on Notice may ask up to one supplementary question, which must be based on the original question or the answer provided to that question.

A period of up to 15 minutes is allocated for the asking and answering of questions.  This may be extended at the discretion of the Chairman with the agreement of the majority of those present.

A period of up to one hour is allocated to consider the motions on notice.  This may only be extended with the agreement of the Council.

"RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it/they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraph of that part, in each case, being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:-