Extraordinary Council (March 2024)
Summary
Addendum to published minutes
"Since this meeting the Council has undertaken further due diligence and obtained legal advice. As a result, the Council has decided not to implement the in-principle decision reached and will instead be undertaking a new procurement exercise."
There is no agenda pack for this meeting, due to the only item being a confidential one. For this reason the meeting will also not be broadcast live or recorded.
1. Apologies for Absence
2. Declarations of Interest
Members are reminded that they must disclose any interests they know they have in items of business on the meeting’s agenda and that they must do so at this point on the agenda or as soon as they become aware of the interest. If the interest is a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest they are also obliged to notify the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of the meeting.
3. Minutes
Minutes of meeting on 21 February 2024.
Part 2 (Exempt Items)
To consider whether to exclude the public from the meeting during the following matter, which contains exempt information within the category of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 indicated:
4. Chelmer Waterside Development
To consider the attached report.
Category: Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972
Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
Public interest statement: It is not in the public interest to release details of this report at present, on the grounds that the report contains information that is commercially sensitive and to place the information in the public realm will be detrimental to the negotiations to be undertaken by the Council.