Agenda item

The following resident Members of the Barbican Residential Committee – Mark Bostock, Mary Durcan, Barbara Newman, David Bradshaw, Randall Anderson, John Tomlinson and Adrian Bastow had applied for and been granted a dispensation under the Localism Act 2011, allowing them to speak only on general housing matters including, on this occasion, parking spaces and private storage spaces, except where that disclosable pecuniary interest would be directly and materially impacted by the matter to be determined. 

The Town Clerk advised that the wider provisions of the dispensation applications would be considered at a meeting of the Dispensations Sub (Standards) Committee on 1 April 2019, which would fully consider any appropriate extension to the dispensations granted for today’s meeting; insofar as they requested speaking (and in one case voting) rights on all matters relating to the Barbican residential estate, except where that disclosable pecuniary interest would be directly and materially impacted by the matter to be determined. 

Members also noted that there was an issue around the interpretation of “all matters relating to the Barbican Estate” and whether it included the car parks and the baggage stores, or whether separate applications would need to made. There were currently varying views on the matter and they too would be the subject of further discussion at the Dispensations Sub Committee. Members also noted that, where a standing dispensation had been granted for the remainder of their terms of office, as was the case with Mr Anderson and Mr Quilter, they would remain and had not been superseded by the new Dispensations Policy which came into effect on 1 March 2019.