To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary and other interests from Members and Officers in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, the Leader of the Council, Councillor D J Bittleston, Councillor A Azad, Councillor D Harlow and Councillor C S Kemp will declare a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Thameswey Group of Companies is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of the Thameswey Group of Companies. The interest is such that speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D J Bittleston will declare a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Victoria Square Development is discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Victoria Square Woking Limited. The interest is such that speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D J Bittleston will declare a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which Rutland Woking Limited is discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Rutland Woking Limited. The interest is such that speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor G S Cundy will declare a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Brookwood Cemetery is discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Woking Necropolis and Mausoleum Limited, Brookwood Park Limited and Brookwood Cemetery Limited. The interest is such that speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D J Bittleston, Councillor D E Hughes and Councillor K Howard will declare a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from their Membership of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest is such that speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor K M Davis will declare a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from his wife’s and daughter’s Memberships of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest is not a formal interest under the Members’ Code of Conduct so speaking and voting are permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Director of Housing, Louise Strongitharm, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which the Thameswey Group of Companies is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of the Thameswey Group of Companies.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which the Victoria Square Development is discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Victoria Square Woking Limited. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, and the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Export House is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Export House Limited. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, and Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Brookwood Cemetery is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Woking Necropolis and Mausoleum Limited, Brookwood Park Limited and Brookwood Cemetery Limited. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Finance Director, Leigh Clarke, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Dukes Court is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Dukes Court Owner T S a r l. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Finance Director, Leigh Clarke, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Kingfield Community Sports Centre is discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Kingfield Community Sports Centre Limited. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Rutland Woking Limited is discussed, arising from his position as Council appointed alternate Director of Rutland Woking Limited. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, and the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, will declare a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from their Memberships of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest is such that speaking is permissible.
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In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, the Leader of the Council, Councillor D J Bittleston, Councillor A Azad, Councillor D Harlow and Councillor C S Kemp declared a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Thameswey Group of Companies was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of the Thameswey Group of Companies. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D J Bittleston declared a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Victoria Square Development was discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Victoria Square Woking Limited. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D J Bittleston declared a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which Rutland Woking Limited was discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Rutland Woking Limited. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor G S Cundy declared a non-pecuniary interest in any items under which the Brookwood Cemetery was discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Woking Necropolis and Mausoleum Limited, Brookwood Park Limited and Brookwood Cemetery Limited. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, the Mayor, Councillor Mrs B A Hunwicks, Councillor S Ashall, Councillor G W Elson, Councillor D J Bittleston, Councillor G G Chrystie, Councillor K Howard, Councillor D E Hughes and Councillor L M N Morales declared a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from their Membership of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor G S Cundy declared a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from both his and his wife’s Membership of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor N Martin declared a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from both her and her husband’s Membership of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor M A Whitehand declared a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from her husband’s Membership of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was not a formal interest under the Members’ Code of Conduct so speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor I Johnson declared an interest in Item 8 – Questions (questions 6, 7, 19 and 22) and Item 16g – Notices of Motion arising from his wife’s position as Chairman of Woking Football Club. The interest was such that Councillor Johnson left the Chamber during the determination of the items.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor K M Davis declared a non-pecuniary interest in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from his wife’s and daughter’s Memberships of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was not a formal interest under the Members’ Code of Conduct so speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor D Hughes and Councillor L Morales declared an interest in Item 6 – Petition – The Hoe Valley Neighbourhood Forum and Item 7 – Hoe Valley Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area Designation arising from their position as Members of the Hoe Valley Neighbourhood Forum and their decision to sign the Hoe Valley petition. The interest was such that speaking and voting were permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Director of Housing, Louise Strongitharm, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which the Thameswey Group of Companies was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of the Thameswey Group of Companies. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which the Victoria Square Development was discussed, arising from his position as a Director of Victoria Square Woking Limited. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, and the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Export House was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Export House Limited. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, and Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Brookwood Cemetery was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Woking Necropolis and Mausoleum Limited, Brookwood Park Limited and Brookwood Cemetery Limited. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Finance Director, Leigh Clarke, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Dukes Court was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Dukes Court Owner T S a r l. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, and the Finance Director, Leigh Clarke, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Kingfield Community Sports Centre was discussed, arising from their positions as Directors of Kingfield Community Sports Centre Limited. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in any items under which Rutland Woking Limited was discussed, arising from his position as Council appointed alternate Director of Rutland Woking Limited. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with Officer Employment Procedure Rules, the Chief Executive, Ray Morgan, the Deputy Chief Executive, Douglas Spinks, and the Head of Democratic and Legal Services, Peter Bryant, declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in agenda item 9f – Recommendations of the Executive – Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley) – Application for Financial Assistance, arising from their Memberships of the Royal Horticultural Society. The interest was such that speaking was permissible.
In accordance with the Officer Employment Procedure Rules, Peter Bryant (Head of Democratic and Legal Services) declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary) in Agenda Item 16g – Notices of Motion – arising from (i) being a member of the Cards Trust, the supporters’ club for Woking Football Club, (ii) providing occasional unpaid assistance to Woking Football Club, e.g. acting as Returning Officer for the election of directors and (iii) a Council appointed director of Kingfield Community Sports Centre Limited. The interest was such that it did not prevent Mr Bryant from advising Council on this matter.
In accordance with the Officer Employment Procedure Rules, Leigh Clarke (Finance Director) declared a disclosable personal interest (non-pecuniary)in Agenda Item 16g – Notices of Motion – arising from (i) her husband having a small shareholding in Woking Football Club and (ii) a Council appointed director of Kingfield Community Sports Centre Limited. The interest was such that it did not prevent Mrs Clarke from advising Council on this matter.