Agenda item

Strategic Policy and Resources Committee

Minutes:

Moved by Alderman Rodgers,

Seconded by Councillor Campbell,

 

      That the minutes of the proceedings of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 20th and 22nd June, omitting matters in respect of which the Council has delegated its powers to the Committee, be approved and adopted.

 

Amendment

 

Draft Plan Strategy - Belfast

Local Development Plan

 

Moved by Councillor Johnston,

Seconded by Councillor Reynolds,

 

      That the decision of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 22nd June, under the heading “Draft Plan Strategy – Belfast Local Development Plan”, be amended to provide that the policy HOU5 on Affordable Housing will have a threshold of 10 units, 0.2 hectares and the percentage reduced to 10%.

 

            On a recorded vote, twenty Members voted for the amendment and thirty-two against and it was declared lost.

 

For 20

 

Aldermen Browne, Copeland, Kingston, McCoubrey, McGimpsey,

L. Patterson, Rodgers, Sandford and Spence; and Councillors

Corr Johnston, Craig, Dorrian, Dudgeon, Graham, Hussey Hutchinson, Johnston, Newton, Pankhurst and Reynolds.

 

Against 32

 

 The Lord Mayor (Councillor Hargey);

 the Deputy Lord Mayor (Councillor

 McDonough-Brown);

the High Sheriff (Councillor Howard);

Alderman Convery; and Councillors Armitage, Attwood, Baker, Beattie, Campbell, Canavan, Carson, Clarke, Collins, Corr, Garrett, Groves, Heading, Long,  Lyons, Magee, Magennis, McAteer, McConville, McReynolds, Mullan, Murphy, Nic Biorna, Nicholl, O’Donnell, O’Hara, O’Neill and Walsh.

 

 

Area Based Festivals Funding

 

            Councillor Long indicated that he wished to propose an amendment to the decisions within the minutes of the meetings of 20th and 22nd June, under the heading “Area Based Festivals Funding”. Initial advice had indicated that this decision had been taken by the Committee under the powers delegated to it under Standing Order 37(a).

 

            Following a review of the minutes and discussion, the Council agreed, in view of the discrepancy in the minutes around the functions which the Council had agreed should be delegated to the Committee, to allow the amendment to be submitted.

 

Amendment

 

Area Based Festivals Funding

 

Moved by Councillor Long,

Seconded by Councillor Lyons,

 

      That the decisions of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 20th and 22nd June, under the headings “Area Based Festivals Funding” be rejected and accordingly no funding be provided.

 

            On a recorded vote, eighteen Members voted for the amendment and thirty-two against and it was declared lost.

 

For 18

 

The Deputy Lord Mayor (Councillor

 McDonough-Brown);

the High Sheriff (Councillor Howard);

Aldermen Browne, Convery, Copeland, McGimpsey and Rodgers; and Councillors Armitage, Attwood, Dudgeon, Heading, Johnston, Long, Lyons, McReynolds, Mullan, Nicholl and O’Neill.

Against 32

 

The Lord Mayor (Councillor Hargey)

Aldermen Kingston, McCoubrey,

L. Patterson, Sandford and Spence; and Councillors Baker, Beattie, Campbell,

Canavan, Carson, Clarke, Collins, Corr, Corr Johnston, Craig, Dorrian, Garrett, Groves, Hussey, Hutchinson, Magee, Magennis, McAteer, McConville, Murphy, Newton, Nic Biorna, O’Hara, Pankhurst, Reynolds and Walsh.

 

Amendment

 

Publicising Planning Applications in the Press

 

            Moved by Councillor Garrett,

            Seconded by Councillor Attwood,

 

      That the decision of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 22nd June, under the heading “Publicising Planning Applications in the Press”, be rejected and accordingly the Council agrees to adopt Option 2, that is, to continue to publicise planning applications in two newspapers.

 

            On a recorded vote, twenty-three Members voted for the amendment and twenty-eight against and it was declared lost.

 

For 23

 

The Lord Mayor (Councillor Hargey);

and Councillors Attwood, Baker, Beattie, Campbell, Canavan, Carson, Clarke, Collins, Corr, Garrett, Groves, Heading, Lyons, Magee, Magennis, McAteer, McConville, Murphy, Nic Biorna, O’Donnell, O’Hara and Walsh.

 

 

 

 

 

Against 28

 

The Deputy Lord Mayor (Councillor

 McDonough-Brown);

the High Sheriff (Councillor Howard);

Aldermen Browne, Convery, Copeland, Kingston, McCoubrey, McGimpsey,

L. Patterson, Rodgers, Sandford and Spence; and Councillors Armitage,

Corr Johnston, Craig, Dorrian, Dudgeon, Graham, Hussey, Hutchinson, Johnston, Long, McReynolds, Mullan, Newton, Nicholl, O’Neill, Pankhurst and Reynolds.

 

 

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