Agenda item

In accordance with the Council’s current Code of Conduct (as amended 26 February 2015), which includes all the provisions relating to Disclosable Pecuniary Interests (DPI), personal and prejudicial interests, Members are asked to declare any DPI and also any personal interests (and whether or not such personal interests are also “prejudicial”) in relation to any matter on the Agenda for this meeting. 

Members are reminded that they need to declare the fact that they are also a member of a County, Town or Parish Council as a Personal Interest.  Where you are also a member of Somerset County Council and/or a Town or Parish Council within South Somerset you must declare a prejudicial interest in any business on the agenda where there is a financial benefit or gain or advantage to Somerset County Council and/or a Town or Parish Council which would be at the cost or to the financial disadvantage of South Somerset District Council. 

Planning Applications Referred to the Regulation Committee

The following members of this Committee are also members of the Council’s Regulation Committee:

Councillors Clare Aparicio Paul, Neil Bloomfield and Sylvia Seal.

Where planning applications are referred by this Committee to the Regulation Committee for determination, Members of the Regulation Committee can participate and vote on these items at the Area Committee and at Regulation Committee.  In these cases the Council’s decision-making process is not complete until the application is determined by the Regulation Committee.  Members of the Regulation Committee retain an open mind and will not finalise their position until the Regulation Committee.  They will also consider the matter at Regulation Committee as Members of that Committee and not as representatives of the Area Committee.

The following declarations of interest were made:

Councillors Tiffany Osborne and Derek Yeomans – personal interest in Agenda item 16 (Planning Application 17/01089/COU) as members of Curry Rivel Parish Council.

Councillors Stephen Page and Dean Ruddle – personal interest in Agenda item 8 (Grant application for Compton Dundon Parish Council) as Ward Members.

Councillors Adam Dance and Crispin Raikes – personal interest in Agenda item 18 (planning application 17/02737/OUT) as members of South Petherton Parish Council.

Councillor Adam Dance also declared a personal interest in Agenda item 16 (planning application 17/01089/COU) as he had previously worked for the applicants.

Councillors Neil Bloomfield and Graham Middleton – personal interest in Agenda item 17 (planning application 17/02732/DPO) as members of Stoke sub Hamdon Parish Council.

Councillors Clare Aparicio Paul, Crispin Raikes and Gerard Tucker asked that it be noted they had been temporarily appointed to Langport Town Council.

At the time Agenda item 17 was discussed (planning application 17/02732/DPO), Councillor Gerard Tucker asked that it be recorded that he had assisted Stoke sub Hamdon in compiling their Parish Plan.