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.

Councillor Clare Aparicio Paul, as the applicant for planning application 17/01183/FUL, declared a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest.

Regarding planning application 15/05090/FUL, Councillor Gerard Tucker noted he had sought legal advice and clarified that he did not need to declare a personal interest. He highlighted that whilst previously employed as an officer he had made officer comments a number of years ago on the application.

Councillors Neil Bloomfield and Graham Middleton both declared personal interests for planning application 17/01632/COL as they are also members of Stoke Sub Hamdon Parish Council.

Councillor Derek Yeomans declared a personal interest for planning application 15/05090/FUL. He noted he had previously declared a prejudicial interest but the circumstances now were different to those previously.

Noting he had taken legal advice, Councillor Derek Yeomans declared a personal interest for planning application 17/01183/FUL as he was friendly with the applicant.