MINUTES of a meeting of the East Sussex Discretionary Transport Appeal Panel
held on 21 June 2021
Present - Councillors: Field and Redstone
Officers: I Crudge
1 Election of Chair
1.1 Councillor Field was elected Chair of the Panel
2 Apologies for absence:
2.1 Apologies were received from Councillor Webb.
3 Public minutes:
3.1 RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the public minutes of the previous meeting held on 21 April 2021.
4 Disclosures of interests:
4.1 Councillor Redstone declared a non-prejudicial interest in case 18/21 and Councillor Field declared a non-prejudicial interest in case 22/21.
5 Urgent items:
5.1 None.
6 Any other non-exempt items:
6.1 None.
7 Exclusion of the press and public:
7.1 It was RESOLVED - to exclude the public and press from the meeting for agenda items 8, 9, 10 and 11 on the grounds that if the public and press were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as specified in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), namely information relating to an individual.
8 Exempt minutes:
8.1 RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the exempt minutes of the previous meeting held on 21 April 2021.
9 Report on previous cases:
9.1 The Panel considered and reached a decision on the following transport provision case number following the conclusion reached by the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman: 20/20.
[The full decision is set out in an exempt minute]
10 Consideration of transport provision in individual cases:
10.1 The Panel considered and reached a decision on the following transport provision case numbers: 16/21, 17/21, 18/21, 19/21, 20/21, 21/21 and 22/21.
[The full decision is set out in an exempt minute]
11 Any other exempt items:
11.1 None.
12 Date and time for next meeting:
12.1 Members agreed the next meeting will take place on 19 July 2021 at 2pm.