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.