Agenda

The Committee is asked to note any apologies for absence and substitutions received from Members.

To confirm and sign as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting of the Standards Committee, held on Thursday 16 May 2024.

Councillors are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Other Registerable Interests of Non-Registerable Interests, and the nature of it, in relation to any item on the agenda.

Subject to providing two working days’ notice, a Member of the Committee may ask the Chairman of the Committee a question on any matter in relation to which the Council has powers or duties which affect the Tendring District and which falls within the terms of reference of the Committee.

To enable the Committee to comment on Independent Persons’ recruitment pack prior to advertisement and to determine the representatives of the Standards Committee on the interview panel.

To enable the Committee to consider the results of the review of the Planning Protocol carried out by the Monitoring Officer and her Team.

To seek the Committee’s approval that members of the Planning Committee, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Planning, Planning Officers and the Independent Persons be consulted on the draft revised Planning Probity Protocol.

To enable the Committee to appoint Tendring District Council’s members to serve on the Town and Parish Councils’ Standards Sub-Committee for the remainder of the 2024/2025 Municipal Year.

To enable the Committee to give further consideration to its Work Plan for the 2024/25 Municipal Year. The work plan has been revised to reflect the impact of the cancellation (due to the Parliamentary General Election) of the meeting of the Committee that should have taken place in July 2024.

The Committee will receive the Monitoring Officer’s update regarding standards complaints.