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 Adam Dance and Crispin Raikes.

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.

Councillor Neil Bloomfield advised that he had failed to declare his interest at the previous meeting as the Somerset County Councillor for Martock and Chairman of Martock Parish Council.  He noted that he also sat on the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Panel and was the Chairman of the Martock Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group.  He also declared a personal interest in for Agenda Items 13 and 14: Planning Application 19/02646/OUT** and 19/02656/FUL** - Land OS 0002 South of Coat Road, Martock, as a Member of Martock Parish Council who had submitted comments on the applications.

Councillor Dean Ruddle declared a personal interest in for Agenda Item 16: Planning Application 19/02417/FUL - Land Adjacent Ham Lane, Compton Dundon as the Somerset County and District Councillor for that Parish.

Councillor Tim Kerley declared a personal interest in for Agenda Item 16: Planning Application 19/02417/FUL - Land Adjacent Ham Lane, Compton Dundon as the District Councillor for that Parish.

Councillor Louise Clark declared a personal interest in for Agenda Items 13 and 14: Planning Application 19/02646/OUT** and 19/02656/FUL** - Land OS 0002 South of Coat Road, Martock, as she was a Member of Martock Parish Council who had submitted comments on the applications.

Councillor Clare Paul declared a personal interest in Agendas item 15: Planning Application 19/02246/FUL - Ridgeway, Stowey Road, Fivehead for Agenda Items as the Somerset County Councillor for Langport and Curry Rivel.