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209.

Minutes of the Council meeting held on the 21st October 2021 pdf icon PDF 531 KB

Minutes:

Councillor Morrow advised that a correction needed to be made to Minute 166 regarding the voting on the Planning Committee’s recommendations of the 29th July 2021, i.e. that Councillor O’Driscoll abstained from voting on the recommendation to grant planning permission for the proposed Council house development at Windmill Close, Caterham as opposed to Auckland Road.

 

Councillor Cooper, seconded by Councillor Ridge, also proposed an amendment regarding Minute 165 (questions submitted under Standing Order 30). This concerned the format of the text in connection with his second supplementary question to Question 2 in Appendix A to the minutes, namely that the last two sentences be shown in italics. The reason for this was to make the presentation consistent with that for the other questions and answers within the appendix. Upon being put to the vote, the proposal was lost.

 

Subject to the above-mentioned correction regarding Councillor O’Driscoll’s abstention from the vote to grant planning permission for the proposed Council house development at Windmill Close, Caterham, the minutes were confirmed and signed as a correct record.    

 

 

210.

Chair's Announcements

Minutes:

Former colleagues

 

The Chair was sorry to announce that a former long serving Councillor and two ex-officer colleagues had passed away since the previous Council meeting, namely:

 

Tony Dalrymple, who served as a District Councillor for the Lingfield & Crowhurst Ward between 1986 and 2007. He was Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group (and ‘de-facto Leader of the Council’) for a period in the early 1990’s and became Chairman of the Council in 1995/96. He was also Chairman of the former Policy & Finance and Planning & Environment Committees at different times and was made an Honorary Alderman in July 2007. Tony passed away on the 22nd October 2021.   

Philip Thomas, who was the Council’s longest serving Chief Executive, having been in post from the end of 1991 until his retirement in December 2003. Philip continued to live in the District until his untimely death on the 31st October 2021.

 

David Homewood, whoserved as a Committee Administrator and Committee Services Manager between 1989 and 2011. He died on the 6th December 2021 after a long period of ill health.     

 

Members stood for a minute’s silence as a mark of respect.

 

Civic events

 

The Chair confirmed that, subject to the implications of possible Covid restrictions, the following civic fundraising events were planned:

 

·           Saturday, 22nd January 2022 - Caterham Food Bank meal and quiz at the Westway Centre

 

·           Friday, 11th February 2022 – St. Valentine’s dinner dance at Bletchingley Golf Club 

 

·           Saturday, 19th March 2022 – concert at the Oxted United Reformed Church performed by members of the Robert Bouffler Music Trust.

 

211.

Declarations of Interest

All Members present are required to declare, at this point in the meeting or as soon as possible thereafter:

 

(i)         any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests (DPIs); and / or

 

(ii)        other interests arising under the Code of Conduct in respect of any item(s) of

            business being considered at the meeting.

 

Anyone with a DPI must, unless a dispensation has been granted, withdraw from the meeting during consideration of the relevant item of business. If in doubt, advice should be sought from the Monitoring Officer or her staff prior to the meeting.

Minutes:

The Chair, together with Councillors Bloore, Prew and Pursehouse, declared non-pecuniary interests in Minute 204 (CIL Working Group – 8th November 2021), the nature of their interests being that they were members of Warlingham Parish Council which had submitted the successful CIL application for financial assistance towards the Warlingham Green improvement project.

 

Councillor Botten declared a non-pecuniary interest regarding the fact that he was a founding trustee of the Westway Centre, the Council’s financial support for which was being considered as part of the budget setting process for 2022/23.   

212.

Questions submitted under Standing Order 30 pdf icon PDF 169 KB

(i)    questions from residents and others working or studying in the District; and

 

(ii)   questions from Councillors

Minutes:

Three questions were submitted by Councillor O’Driscoll, the contents of which are set out at Appendix A, together with responses from the relevant committee Chairs.

 

 

213.

Reports of committees pdf icon PDF 896 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

R E S O L V E D that the reports of the following meetings be received, and the recommendations therein be adopted:

 

            Audit & Scrutiny Committee - 2nd November 2021 (subject to Councillor Botten            being added to the list of those present as a substitute member of the Committee)

 

 

            Licensing Committee - 16th November 2021

 

 

            Community Services Committee - 23rd November 2021

 

 

            Planning Policy Committee - 25th November 2021 (subject to Councillor O’Driscoll        being added to the list of those ‘also present’)

 

 

            Housing Committee - 30th November 2021

 

 

            Strategy & Resources Committee - 2nd December 2021