South Hams Council

Title:	Agenda
Date:	Thursday, 25th May, 2023
Time:	10.00 am
Venue:	Council Chamber - Follaton House

Full Members:	Chairman
	Vice Chairman

Members:

Cllr Abbott Cllr Allen Cllr Birch Cllr Bonham Cllr Brazil Cllr Carson Cllr Cooper Cllr Dennis Cllr Dewynter Cllr Dommett Cllr Hancock Cllr Hawkins Cllr Hodgson Cllr Hopwood Cllr Jackson

Cllr Lawford Cllr Long Cllr McKay Cllr Munoz Cllr Nix Cllr O'Callaghan Cllr Oram Cllr Pannell Cllr Penfold Cllr Presswell Cllr Rake Cllr Steele Cllr Taylor Cllr Thomas Cllr Yardy

Interests – Declaration and Restriction on Participation:	Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any disclosable pecuniary interest not entered in the Authority's register or local non pecuniary interest which they have in any item of business on the agenda (subject to the exception for sensitive information) and to leave the meeting prior to discussion and voting on an item in which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest.
Committee administrator:	[email protected]

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1.	Election of the Chairman of the Council;
	(The Chairman will then read and sign the declaration of acceptance of office).

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2.	Address by the New Chairman of Council;

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3.	Vote of thanks to the Retiring Chairman

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4.	Response by the Retiring Chairman

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5.	Appointment of the Vice Chairman of the Council;
	(The Vice Chairman will then read and sign the declaration of acceptance of office).

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6.	Minutes	1 - 12
	to approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 30 March 2023 and the Special Meeting held on 13 April 2023;

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7.	Declarations of Interest
	In accordance with the Code of Conduct, Members are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Other Registerable Interests and Non-Registerable Interests including the nature and extent of such interests they may have in any items to be considered at this meeting;

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8.	Election of Leader of the Council and Chairman of the Executive for the four year term from 2023/24
	upon his/her election, the Leader to announce their Deputy Leader and Executive membership (including portfolio areas);

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9.	Representation on Political Groups
	to approve a review carried out in consultation with leaders of the Political Groups.  This is reflected in the list of Council Bodies (to follow) – see item 10 below;

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10.	Appointment of Members (and Substitute Members) of the Bodies of the Council
	to appoint the Members of the following Council Bodies for the 2023/24 Municipal Year:- a) Audit & Governance Committee; b) Council Tax Setting Committee; c) Development Management Committee; d) Licensing Committee; and e) Overview & Scrutiny Committee.

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11.	Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman of those Bodies of the Council
	to elect the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the following Bodies of the Council for the 2023/24 Municipal Year:- a) Audit & Governance Committee; b) Council Tax Setting Committee; c) Development Management Committee; d) Licensing Committee; and e) Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

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12.	Appointment of Representatives on Outside Bodies
	to agree to the appointment of Members as representatives on Outside Bodies for the 2023/24 Municipal Year; NOTE: Although some of these appointments are accepted by the “Outside Bodies” for a period of years, it is the Council’s practice where possible to review all appointments annually.

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13.	Appointment of Governance Boards / Panels
	to agree to the appointment of the following Groups for the 2023/24 Municipal Year:- a) Devon Building Control Partnership; b) Director – Plymouth & South Devon Freeport; c) Joint SH/WD/Plymouth Local Plan Partnership Board; d) Rate Relief Panel; e) Slapton Line Steering Group; f) South Devon AONB Partnership Committee; and g) Tamar Valley AONB Partnership Committee.

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14.	Exempt Information
	to consider whether the consideration of any item of business would be likely to disclose exempt information and if so the category of such exempt information;

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15.	Urgent Business
	the Chairman to announce if any item not on the agenda should be considered on the basis that he considers it as a matter of urgency (any such item to be dealt with under ‘Business Brought forward by the Chairman’);

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16.

Appointment of Independent Persons

13 - 16

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17.

Council Constitution

17 - 24

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18.

Honorary Aldermen - Process

25 - 28

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19.	Reports of Bodies
	to receive and as may be necessary approve the minutes and recommendations of the under-mentioned Bodies:- * Indicates minutes containing recommendations to Council.

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(a)

Overview & Scrutiny Committee - 16 March 2023

29 - 34

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(b)

Development Management Committee - 5 April 2023

35 - 44

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(c)

Executive - 13 April 2023

45 - 48

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