This meeting will be held in public excluded under the grounds of section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA) for this meeting to be publicly excluded as the public conduct of the meeting would likely result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding would exist.  Those reasons include:

•    to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied (LGOIMA, s 7(2)(c)(i)); and

•    to maintain legal professional privilege (LGOIMA, s 7(2)(g)).

1. Welcome

2. Apologies

3. Confirmation of Agenda

The agenda is to be confirmed as published.

4. Declarations of Interest

Members are reminded of the need to stand aside from decision-making when a conflict arises between their role as an elected representative and any private or other external interest they might have.

The Register of Pecuniary Interests can be found on the ORC website.

5. Resolution to Exclude the Public

That the Council excludes the public from the following part of the proceedings of this meeting (pursuant to the provisions of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987), namely:

• Draft response to the Minister for the Environment regarding the proposed Land and Water Regional Plan.

Document: Public Exclusion Table

6. Closure