Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:  That the items on the agenda be taken in public as proposed.

ReSOLVED:  that legal advice to assist Members in their determination of applications 14/505432, 15/507124 and 15/510186 be considered in public, but the information contained therein should remain private.  However, should Members wish to ask questions of the Officers about the advice, the public should be excluded from the meeting because of the likely disclosure of exempt information having applied the Public Interest Test.

The Chairman announced that he had been advised that he had pre-determined the three Staplehurst applications.  He did not think he had, but he accepted the advice, and would leave the meeting when the applications were discussed and the associated petition was presented.  The Vice-Chairman would take the Chair in his absence.