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Materials for committee clerks


Here are the materials we used; they cover an introduction to planning, decision making, motions and amendments, dealing with the public, interests and probity matters:

 
Planning Committee Management (opens in new window)
115.25 KB - PDF
 
Planning and Decision Making (opens in new window)
980.14 KB - PDF
 
Members Interests, Bias and Pre-determination relating (opens in new window)
114.03 KB - PDF
 
Motions, Amendments, Decisions and Conditions (opens in new window)
136.68 KB - PDF
 
Managing Public Expectations (opens in new window)
909.39 KB - PDF
 
Scenarios - Interests, Bias, Pre-determination and Legitimate Pre-disposition (opens in new window)
92.18 KB - PDF
 
Scenarios - Motions and Amendments (opens in new window)
86.17 KB - PDF
 

For more information, see our page on: Probity in planning for councillors and officers.  

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