Please note that these meetings will not take place in the public
domain.
Following an extraordinary meeting of the
Council on Tuesday 17 March 2020, Members considered and agreed the
governance arrangements set out below in light of the COVID-19
(Coronavirus) outbreak.
The COVID-19 Interim Measures Group has been
set up to address point (iii) below.
(i)
That all Council, Committee,
Sub-Committee, Working Group and all like meetings are suspended
with immediate effect for the time being;
(ii)
That any one of the Directors, in
consultation with the Leader of the Council, Chairman of the
Council and the Leader of the Opposition or any of their
substitutes identified in recommendation (iii), may determine that
the suspension shall end fully or partially and in any event a
review will take place in eight weeks from the date of this
meeting;
(iii)
That in the interim any Director is
authorised to determine the business that would otherwise have been
determined by the Council, Committees and Sub-Committees but for
the suspension in recommendation (i) above, in consultation with
the Leader of the Council, Chairman of the Council and Leader of
the Opposition (and in their absence with those substitutes
identified below):
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Substitute Members
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Leader of the
Council
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Councillors E
L Bamford, M W Helm, S P Nunn, Mrs M E Thompson and Miss S
White
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Chairman of the Council
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Councillors
Mrs P A Channer CC,
K W Jarvis, Mrs J L Fleming, B E Harker and J
Stilts
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Leader of the Opposition
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Councillors
Mrs P A Channer CC, R P F Dewick, S P Nunn, E L
Bamford and W Stamp
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(iv)
That prior to the implementation of
(iii) above, where a planning or licensing application was due to
be determined by a Committee or Sub-Committee the applicant(s) will
be asked whether they would rather delay determination of their
planning or licensing application to a future Committee or
Sub-Committee meeting;
(v)
That all decisions will be reported to Members as soon as
reasonably possible.
This Working Group ceased to exist from
07/09/2020.