Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Isle of Wight/ Cowes Town/ Gurnard Parish/ Northwood Parish Councillor Register of Interests

 

REGISTER OF INTERESTS

 

 ISLE OF WIGHT/ COWES TOWN/ NORTHWOOD PARISH/ GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL

 

ISLE OF WIGHT/ COWES TOWN/ NORTHWOOD PARISH/ GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL                                         requires all Members to complete this register within 28 days of their election.  If your circumstances change you are required, within 28 days of the change, to submit written notification of the change to the Monitoring Officer.

 

 

Name of Member: PAUL ANDREW FULLER JP,CC. 

 

I set out below my interests and those I am aware of relating to my spouse /partner under the various headings.

 

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests:

 

These are interests that are required to be declared by the Localism Act 2011 and the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012.  These declarations relate to you AND any interests you are aware of relating to your spouse or civil partner or a person you live with as husband and wife or as if you were civil partners

 

Please put “None” where appropriate.

 

 

 

 

Category of Interest

Your Interests

Interests of your spouse/partner

Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

 

This includes any firm or company in which you, or your spouse, or your partner are a business partner or director.

 

 

 

 

 

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR

 

(FOR COWES WEST AND GURNARD)

I HAVE BEEN LEGALLY SEPARATED SINCE NOVEMBER 2021.

 

I AM CURRENTLY IN A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH EMMA COX A FRESHWATER PARISH COUNCILLOR.

 

TO NOTE, AS I DO NOT SHARE A HOME OR FINANCES WITH EMMA, DETAILS AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF THIS RELATIONSHIP ARE NON-DISCLOSABLE.

Sponsorship

 

Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from ISLE OF WIGHT/ COWES TOWN/ NORTHWOOD PARISH/ GURNARD PARISH  COUNCIL made or provided in respect of any expenses incurred by you or your spouse or partner in carrying out duties as a member or towards the election expenses of you or your spouse or partner. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

 

NONE.

 

Contracts

 

Any contract which is made between  ISLE OF WIGHT/ COWES TOWN/ NORTHWOOD PARISH/ GURNARD PARISH  COUNCIL and either:

 

a)    you; your spouse; or your partner; or

b) firm in which either you or your spouse or partner is a business partner; or

c) a body corporate of which you or your spouse or partner is a director; or

d) a body in which you or your spouse or partner has a beneficial interest (that is a firm in which you or your spouse/partner is a business partner or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner is a director or an industrial and prudent society where you or your spouse or partner are a member of the management committee or a corporate body in which you or your spouse/partner have a beneficial interest in its securities  

 

(a) under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and

 

(b) which has not been fully discharged.

 

NONE.

 

Land

 

Any beneficial interest in land which is within the Isle of Wight, excluding an easement, servitude, interest or right in or over land which does not carry with it a right for you or your spouse or partner alone or jointly with another to occupy the land or to receive income.

 

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

 

45 OXFORD STREET, NORTHWOOD, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT PO31 8PT.

 

I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WITH PROPERTY ASSETS AT:

 

19 CORONATION AVENUE NORTHWOOD, COWES.

(Parent)

 

4 GRAYSWOOD CLOSE, SANDOWN, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(Parent)

 

11 CLIFFORD STREET, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT

(Parent)  For this property I also act as a landlord’s agent

 

 

Licences

 

Any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the Isle of Wight for a month or longer.

 

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

 

NONE.

 

Corporate tenancies

 

Any tenancy where (to your  knowledge) the landlord is the Isle of Wight Council and the tenant is a body in which you or your spouse or partner, has a beneficial interest.

 

Please give address or description sufficient to identify the location.

NONE.

 

Securities

 

Any beneficial interest in securities (shares, debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, units of a collective investment scheme within the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and other securities of any description other than money deposited with a building society) of a body where that body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the Isle of Wight; and either

(i) the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or

(ii) if the share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.

NONE.

 

 

ADDITIONAL INTERESTS AGREED BY  ISLE OF WIGHT/ COWES TOWN/ NORTHWOOD PARISH/ GURNARD PARISH  COUNCIL TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MEMBERS REGISTER OF INTERESTS

 

I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following bodies to which I have been appointed or nominated by the authority as its representative:

OUTSIDE BODIES: I AM CHAIRMAN OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT LOCAL ACCESS FORUM. (Initially nominated by the Isle of Wight Council in 2009, 2013 and 2017. Since 2021 I now serve as an Independent member). 

I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management in the following:

Public authorities or bodies exercising functions of a public nature:

NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL, PLANNING member and representative for COWES, NORTHWOOD & GURNARD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FORUM, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY FORUM, AND HEDGEHOG FRIENDLY COUNCILLOR (Parish Council Representative)

COWES TOWN COUNCIL, Member of; HIGHWAYS PFI DISTRICT ONE LIAISON GROUP (Town Council Representative), ISLE OF WIGHT ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY FORUM; ISLE OF WIGHT AGAINST SCAMS PARTNERSHIP; COWES HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS (DEPUTY); ISLE OF WIGHT ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL COUNCILS;

GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL, Member of PLANNING AND FACILITIES COMMITTEE, PUBLIC ACCESS WORKING GROUP, BEACH WORKING GROUP, OLD SCHOOL MEADOW WORKING GROUP, COWES, NORTHWOOD & GURNARD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FORUM; GURNARD ACTIVE TRAVEL WORKING GROUP, ISLE OF WIGHT ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL COUNCILS (Deputy), ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY FORUM (Deputy),

I AM GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL VICE-CHAIR AND REPRESENT THE COUNCIL ON OUTSIDE BODIES IN THIS CAPACITY.

AS ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR.  I AM A MEMBER OF THE IW COUNCIL’S PLANNING COMMITTEE, I SERVE ON THE CHILDREN’S SERVICES, EDUCATION & SKILLS COMMITTEE; ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITY PROTECTION COMMITTEE AND ECONOMY, REGENERATION, TRANSPORT & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE. I AM AN INDEPENDENT MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE GROUP

I REPRESENT THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL ON THE FOLLOWING OUTSIDE BODIES:
SOUTHERN INSHORE FISHERIES AND CONSERVATION AUTHORITY from 2015-2017 and 2021, Chair from June 2024, SOUTHERN  REGIONAL FLOOD AND COASTAL COMMITTEE from June 2021 and SOLENT TRANSPORT from June 2025.

AS IW COUNCILLOR I HOLD SURGERIES AT THE PORTLAND INN, THE WOODVALE, EEGONS CAFÉ, NORTHWOOD VILLAGE HALL, GURNARD PRESS & BISTRO, COWES LIBRARY, ALL SAINTS CHURCH, GURNARD AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY CLUB

I SERVE AS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND MEMBER OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT BENCH SERVING THE YOUTH PANEL.

a.    company, industrial and provident society, charity, or body directed to charitable purposes;

I AM A TRUSTEE/ DIRECTOR OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT FOOTPRINT TRUST CHARITY.                                                                              

I WISH TO PLACE ON RECORD THAT I AM NOT A FREEMASON, OR MEMBER OF ANY LIKE ORGANISATION.

b.    body whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy;

NONE. 

c.    trade union or professional association.

NONE.

Date:                 UPDATED 25th JUNE 2025.                         Signed:

 

RECEIVED:

 

 

Date:                                                                                         Signed:           

 

(Monitoring Officer or their representative)