Agenda and minutes

To confirm the minutes of the last meeting of the Sub-Committee held on 29 June 2016.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the last meeting of the Sub-Committee held on 29 June 2016 be agreed subject to noting that Councillor S Murray gave apologies for non attendance but was noted as being absent.

(Director of Governance) To declare interests in any item on this agenda.

(a)       Pursuant to the Council’s code of Conduct, Councillors S Murray, C C Pond, C P Pond and R Brookes declared a personal non-pecuniary interest in the following item, by virtue of attending the Loughton Methodist Church which uses the same access road to the car park and hall at the back of the church and the objector being known to them. The Councillors advised that they would remain in the meeting for the duration of the discussion and voting thereon:

·                    EPF/3019/15 – Land to the rear of 268-278 High Road, Loughton, IG10 4BG

Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, requires that the permission of the Chairman be obtained, after prior notice to the Chief Executive, before urgent business not specified in the agenda (including a supplementary agenda of which the statutory period of notice has been given) may be transacted.

It was noted that there was no other business for consideration by the Sub-Committee.

(Director of Governance)  To consider planning applications as set out in the attached schedule

Background Papers:  (i)  Applications for determination – applications listed on the schedule, letters of representation received regarding the applications which are summarised on the schedule.  (ii)  Enforcement of Planning Control – the reports of officers inspecting the properties listed on the schedule in respect of which consideration is to be given to the enforcement of planning control.

The Sub-Committee considered a schedule of applications for planning permission.

            RESOLVED:

            That the planning applications numbered 1 – 9 be determined as set out in the attached schedule to these minutes.

Exclusion: To consider whether, under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press should be excluded from the meeting for the items of business set out below on grounds that they will involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the following paragraph(s) of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act (as amended) or are confidential under Section 100(A)(2):

The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006, which came into effect on 1 March 2006, requires the Council to consider whether maintaining the exemption listed above outweighs the potential public interest in disclosing the information. Any member who considers that this test should be applied to any currently exempted matter on this agenda should contact the proper officer at least 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Background Papers:  Article 17 - Access to Information, Procedure Rules of the Constitution define background papers as being documents relating to the subject matter of the report which in the Proper Officer's opinion:

(a)        disclose any facts or matters on which the report or an important part of the report is based;  and

(b)        have been relied on to a material extent in preparing the report and does not include published works or those which disclose exempt or confidential information and in respect of executive reports, the advice of any political advisor.

The Council will make available for public inspection for four years after the date of the meeting one copy of each of the documents on the list of background papers.

The Sub-Committee noted that there were no items of business on the agenda that necessitated the exclusion of the public and press from the meeting.