With regard to Minute 21 it was agreed that although Cllr Piper did not declare an interest it would be helpful to have minuted the advice he had received from the Monitoring Officer.  At that meeting in response to a query as to whether he should declare an interest as Portfolio Holder for Planning, a member of the Planning Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Sevenoaks Town Council Planning Committee, he advised that following advice received from the Monitoring Officer, as long as you entered the meetings with an open mind prepared to change your mind, he was covered.  He stated that he had never previously expressed a view or campaigned on any of the sites and it was entirely appropriate to vote and was covered by Section 25 of the Localism Act 2011 and the Council’s Constitution. 

Resolved: That the Minutes of the meeting of the Planning Advisory Committee held on 22 November 2018 be approved and signed by the Chairman as a correct record, subject to the above being noted.