Local Plan Sub-Committee - Thursday 4 July (7pm)

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday 4 July 2019 at 7pm.

Members of the Local Plan Sub-Committee:-

Sara Bedford (Chairman)      Alex Michaels

Matthew Bedford      Reena Ranger

Stephen Cox      Alison Wall

Stephen Giles-Medhurst      Phil Williams

Chris Lloyd

Steven Halls, Chief Executive

26 June 2019

The Local Sub-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 Policy and Resources 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.

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1.            APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.           MINUTES

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the Local Plan Sub-Committee meeting held on 20 June 2019.

3.         NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with the special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

4.         DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

5.         BROADBAND AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

This topic paper sets out the key issues that the new Local Plan needs to address in relation to broadband and mobile technology.

6.         CARBON EMISSIONS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

7.         EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraphs ( 2 and 3) of Part I 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.”

(Note: If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

1.         LOCAL PLAN

2.        OTHER BUSINESS – If approved under item 3 above.