Extraordinary Regulatory Services Committee - 16 January 2018

EXTRAORDINARY REGULATORY SERVICES COMMITTEE

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For an meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, on Tuesday 16 January 2018 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Committee:-

Councillors:-      Steve Drury (Chairman)      Martin Trevett (Vice-Chairman)

Eric Bishop      Sarah Nelmes

Valerie Coltman      Ralph Sangster

Heather Kenison      Roger Seabourne

Stephen King      Alison Wall

Joy Mann

Steven Halls, Chief Executive

8 January 2018

The Regulatory Services Committee welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items. Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Regulatory Services Committee. Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

In accordance with The Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 any matters considered under Part I business only of the meeting may be filmed, recorded, photographed, broadcast or reported via social media by any person.

Recording and reporting the Council’s meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance. This will include the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel and defamation.

1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

3. REVIEW OF POLLING DISTRICTS AND POLLING PLACES

At the meeting held on 6 December 2017 the Committee received a report on the Review of Polling Districts and Polling Places. At the meeting the Committee deferred the decision on Items 5.1 and 5.4 included within the report.   A further review has now taken place with further submissions received for the Committee to consider and agree.  Members are asked to bring with them the papers from the 6 December 2017 meeting.  A copy of the report from the meeting held on 6 December 2017 is provided below.

4. EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If any confidential business is approved, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s) and a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

“that under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under the relevant paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act”. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

1. OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3. -