Agenda and draft minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Judith Barnes, Co-optee.

There were no declarations of interest.

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Sub Committee proceeded to consider the dispensation requests submitted by Mark Bostock, Susan Pearson, Jason Pritchard and Brian Mooney.

Mark Bostock

The Sub-Committee considered your application for a dispensation relating to a long lease of a flat and lease of a store in the Barbican residential estate.

Details of dispensation sought

To speak and vote for the remainder of your term of office (until March 2021) on any matter which affects your constituents and in which you may have a disclosable pecuniary interest, except for a matter which:

(a)   affects you uniquely or more than any of your constituents; and

(b)   insofar as regards a dispensation to vote only, falls within the restriction imposed by section 618 of the Housing Act 1985 for as long as that provision remains on the statute book.

Details of dispensations granted

The following dispensations were granted for the remainder of your current term of office (until March 2021):

(1)   To speak on general housing matters, as identified in the dispensations policy, and also car parking spaces and private storage spaces relating to the Barbican residential estate, insofar as those issues affect residents of the Barbican residential estate equally; and

(2)   To speak and vote on planning application (18/00335/LBC) at the Planning and Transportation Committee on 30 July 2019 and any subsequent meeting at which that application is considered; and

(3)   To speak and vote on the setting of council tax; and

(4)   To speak on licensing applications with the same rights as a member of the public, in accordance with the dispensations policy.

Reasons

Under the Localism Act 2011 the Sub-Committee may grant a dispensation only if, after having had regard to all relevant circumstances, it considers that one of the statutory grounds is satisfied.  The Sub-Committee considered that the terms of the

There were no further matters raised.

There was no urgent business raised.