[park381]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Don't think that is quite correct park, a councillor only has to declare an interest if he has involvement with the said application or with the applicant, can't see anything wrong with a constituent lobbying a councillor with regards to planning no more than contacting him/her with regards to say their dust bin not being emptied, so long as no sort of inducement is offered

Those are your thoughts jaysay, why then did the officer make a point of including in the report the fact that a councillor who was a member of the planning committee had asked for the application to be considered by the planning committee.Did the officer not consider the councillor had displayed an interest in the application in this case. Plus the application would have been considered by the planning committee so there was no need for the councillor to make that request in the first place.