Background:
This report provided details of an urgent decision recently made by the Leader following concerns raised relating to the use of delegated authority concerning the Chatham Dynamic Bus Facility.
Following Cabinet’s decision on the bus facility on 24 November 2009, the Director of Regeneration, Community and Culture was acting as both the applicant for the planning permission and also had delegated authority to consider any objections and determine whether or not to appropriate the public open space for the bus facility. Therefore, the Leader had made an urgent, non-key, decision to reassign this delegated authority to the Assistant Director, Housing and Corporate Services in place of the Director of Regeneration Community and Culture.
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The Cabinet noted the use of the Leader’s urgency powers to amend the delegation from the Director of Regeneration, Community and Culture to the Assistant Director (Housing & Corporate Services). |
Reasons:
To ensure that the objectors do not consider that there is a perception of conflict of interest.