MINUTES of a meeting of the East Sussex Discretionary Transport Appeal Panel

held on 21 September 2022.

 

 


Present         -        Councillors:   Field, Redstone and Webb

Officer:         I Crudge

 

1             Apologies for absence:

 

1.1         None.

 

2        Public minutes:

 

2.1     RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the public minutes of the previous meeting held on 24 August 2022.

 

3        Disclosures of interests:

 

3.1     Councillor Redstone declared a non-prejudicial interest in case number 29/22.

 

4        Urgent items:

         

4.1     None.

 

5        Any other non-exempt items:

 

5.1     None.    

 

6        Exclusion of the press and public:

 

6.1     It was RESOLVED - to exclude the public and press from the meeting for agenda items 7,8, 9 and 10 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.

 

7        Exempt minutes:

 

7.1     RESOLVED to approve as a correct record the exempt minutes of the previous meeting held on 24 August 2022.

 

8        Report on previous cases:

 

8.1     None.

 

9        Consideration of transport provision in individual cases:

 

9.1     The Panel considered and reached a decision on the following transport provision case numbers: 28/22, 29/22 and 31/22.  

 

9.2     Case number 30/22 was deferred pending some additional information.

 

[The full detail is set out in an exempt minute]

 

10      Any other exempt items:

         

10.1    The Panel were given an update on the status of an Ombudsman’s complaint where fault had been found. The Panel noted agreement had been given to reconsider the case within one month of the Ombudsman’s final decision.   

 

11      Date and time for next meeting:

 

11.1    Members agreed to convene on 11 October 2022 at 3pm to consider the case referred to in item 10. The Panel confirmed the meeting scheduled for 26 October 2022 at 10am will take place as planned.