The Standards Commission Hearing Panel did not believe the outcome had been affected.
North Lanarkshire’s Provost, Councillor Kenneth Duffy, has been censured for comments made to the press about a planning application related to a rail freight hub at Ravenscraig.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.However, council officers were in fact waiting for information and no recommendation had yet been made at that stage. The panel decided that on reading of the article, members of the public may have believed that council officers had acted inappropriately by providing information about the intended recommendation to the councillor, when they had not.
However, despite the councillor’s comments to the press the hearing panel did not believe that the outcome of the planning application had been affected.
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