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Agenda
Part A
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Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
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Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
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Urgent Items
The Chair will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
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Declarations of Interest
Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other registerable interest or non-registerable interest.
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Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 16 December 2024 are a correct record.
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Have Your Say! (Hybrid Local Plan Committee Meetings)
Up to 10 members of the public may make representations to Local Plan Committee on any item on the agenda or any other matter relating to the business of the Local Plan Committee. Please note that the Chair has extended the speaking arrangements to allow 10 speakers to address the Committee. Each representation may be no more than three minutes. Members of the public wishing to address the Local Plan Committee must register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting (Friday 14 February 2025) and provide a copy of the representation you wish to make.
The Local Plan Committee are asked to : agree the content of the Preferred Options Colchester Local Plan (Regulation 18) as appended to this report as Appendix B. To agree to the publication of the Preferred Options Colchester Local Plan for consultation for a period of 6 weeks to commence as soon as reasonably practical following the Committee meeting. To note the publication of the evidence documents listed and summarised in the report. For the Committee to delegate authority to Head of Planning and the Chair of the Local Plan Committee to make minor revisions to the Preferred Options Colchester Local Plan, including the policies maps, prior to publication.
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Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).
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Declarations of Interests
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