Decision details

The Chief Executive has granted a dispensation, for a period of four years, to those Leeds City Councillors who are signatories to the attached application Schedule from the restrictions in section 31(4)(a) to take part in the discussion of a matter in which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest to allow them to make representations at a meeting where members of the public have the same entitlement (e.g. to allow a Councillor who is making an application for planning permission to attend to make representations at a meeting of the Council’s Planning Committee which is to hear the matter in the same way as a member of the public) for the reasons set out in the attached report.