Issue - meetings

If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular report he/she should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of the item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken, unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

Where members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration, unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee.

The following declarations of interest were made:

·        Item 5.1 Petitions: Sands End Community Centre - The Mayor declared a personal interest as she was an attendee at the Sands End Community Centre.

·        Items 6.4 Question 4 – Mr Coll McDonnell and 7.4 Shepherds Bush Market Area Planning Brief – Market and Theatre Led Regeneration report:

• The Mayor, Councillors Belinda Donovan, Michael Cartwright, Stephen Greenhalgh, Robert Iggulden, Lucy Ivimy and Alex Karmel declared personal interests as they were members of the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group.
• The Mayor, Councillors Michael Cartwright, Stephen Greenhalgh, Robert Iggulden, Lucy Ivimy and Harry Phibbs declared personal interests as they were members of Hammersmith Society.

·        Item 8.1 Special Motion 1 – Threshold Housing Advice - Councillor Wesley Harcourt declared a personal interest as Threshold Housing Advice was one of the key members of the organisation that he worked for and they were also a partner in a joint bid to the legal services commission with the Citizens Advice Bureau of which he was a trustee.