About Me

INDEPENDENT ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR FOR COWES WEST & GURNARD (Since 2009) Timeline: 1993 Green Candidate for IWCC Election (Ryde NE); 1994 Green Party European Elections Candidate (Wight & Hampshire South); 1995-2001 Independent IW Councillor (Ryde NE); 2001-2005 and 2011- Cowes Town Councillor; 2005-2009 and 2012- Gurnard Parish Councillor; 2008- Northwood Parish Councillor; from 2009 Independent IW Councillor (Cowes West & Gurnard). I've served as a Justice of the Peace since 2001. INDEPENDENT? I'm fully Independent was an Executive/ Cabinet member until 2017 and from 2021. As an Independent I robustly defend putting the needs of communities first. I have no political activists, sponsors or businesses shadowing me and therefore my loyalty to represent Gurnard & Cowes is absolute. I aspire to be a hard working, transparent, effective and enthusiastic Ward Councillor. Please contact me to meet at your convenience, or visit my surgeries listed below. Thank you for visiting my website!

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Declaration of Interests Update: October 2026

 Notification by Member of a Local Authority of Pecuniary and Other Interests Localism Act 2011, S.29 (1)

I,    PAUL ANDREW FULLER, JP, CC

a  Member of The

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL, COWES TOWN COUNCIL, GURNARD PARISH COUNCIL & NORTHWOOD PARISH COUNCIL

hereby notify the following interests:

* Note: In the notice below reference to your spouse or partner means your spouse or civil partner; or a person with whom you are living as husband or wife; or a person with whom you are living as if you are civil partners.

SECTION 1 - DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTERESTS:   

(1) Your employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain and the name of the person or body that employs/has appointed you – this should include every business, employment and profession that you have to declare for tax purposes.

Myself

 

 

Isle of Wight Councillor (for Cowes West and Gurnard)

My partner

 

Not applicable, To be transparent I do not live with my partner, Emma Cox or my wife, Karen Fuller who I’ve been legally separated from since November 2021

 

(2) Sponsorships: Name of person(s) or body/ies (other than a relevant authority) who has/have made a payment or provision of any other financial benefit to you in respect of your election or any expenses incurred by you in carrying out your duties as a Member, together with details of any payments made. This should include any payment of financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. You do not need to declare the amounts of any payments, only the name of the person or body makingthem. You do not need to declare if you pay your election expenses yourself.

Myself

 

Not Applicable

My partner

 

Not Applicable

 

(3) Contracts: Description of any contract for goods, services or works which are to be executed; and /or which has not been fully discharged made between the Council and yourselves or a firm in which you are a partner, a company of which you are a remunerated director, or a person or body of the description specified in (1) above.

Myself

 

Not Applicable

My partner

 

Not Applicable

 

 (4) Land: Address or other description (sufficient to identify location) of any land in the Council’s area in which you have a beneficial interest. This includes details of your home address, land, garages, allotments and any other properties you own, lease or rent and any other properties you are a mortgagee of within the Council’s area

Myself

 

45 Oxford Street, Northwood, Cowes, Isle of Wight

11 Clifford Street, Newport, Isle of Wight (Pending)

My partner

 

Not relevant, and therefore not applicable as set out in 1 above

 

 (5) Licences: Address or other description (sufficient to identify the location) of any land in the Council’s area for which you have a licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy for a month or longer. e.g. land in the Council area which you or your spouse/partner have a right to occupy, but neither own nor have tenancy of. “Land” includes any buildings or parts of buildings.

Myself

 

Not Applicable

My partner

 

Not Applicable

 

(6) Corporate Tenancies: Address or other description (sufficient to identify location) of any land where the landlord is the Council, and you are the tenant. This means you, a firm in which you are a partner, a company of which you are a remunerated director, or a person or body of the description specified in (1) above has a beneficial interest.

Myself

 

Not Applicable

My partner

 

Not Applicable

 

(7) Securities: Name(s) of any person(s) or body/ies having a place of business or land in the Council’s area, and in which you have a beneficial interest in a class of securities of that person(s) or body/ies that exceeds the nominal value of £25,000, or one hundredth of the total issued share capital (whichever is lower) or if the share capital of that body is more than one class the total nominal value of the shares of any one claim in which you have an interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class

Myself

 

Not Applicable

My partner

 

Not Applicable

 

SECTION 2  OTHER REGISTERABLE PERSONAL INTERESTS

(8) I hold the following unpaid directorships:

Isle of Wight Footprint Trust.

 

(9) I am a member or in a position of general control or management of the following body/ies to which I have been appointed or nominated by the Council – e.g. Outside Bodies. Enter name of body/ies.

Isle of Wight Council: Solent Forum; Hampshire and Solent Combined Council Authority Planning Advisory Group, Southern Regional Flood and Coastal Committee; Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (Deputy)

Within the IW Council, I chair/ member of the Planning Committee and am a member of the Licensing Committee and Appeals Committee. I am a deputy on both the Policy, Finance and Resources Committee and Isle of Wight Pension Fund Committee.

I am a member of the Island First Network group of Independent Councillors

Cowes Town Council: Isle of Wight Association of Local Councils.

Gurnard Parish Council:  As Vice Chair, I serve ex-officio on all Gurnard Parish Council Committees/ Working Groups.

Northwood Parish Council: I serve as Northwood’s Hedgehog Friendly Councillor.

 

(10) I am a member or in a position of general control or management of the following body/ies exercising functions of a public nature. Enter name of body/ies.

Isle of Wight Local Access Forum.  Chair and Independent Member 

(11) I am a member or in a position of general control or management of the following body/ies directed to charitable purposes, e.g. local Freemasons Lodge, Rotary Club, Community Associations. Enter name of body/ies.

I am not a freemason or member of any like organisation.

(12) I am a member or in a position of general control or management of the following body/ies,  one of whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade unions) of which I am a Member (or in a position of general control or management) e.g. relevant Association of Councillors, trade unions, Countryside Alliance and professional associations. Enter name of body/ies.

I serve as a local councillor for the following:

Isle of Wight Council, Cowes Town Council (Cowes North); Gurnard Parish Council, Northwood Parish Council

SECTION 3 – NOTIFICATION OF GIFTS AND HOSPITALITY

Please provide details of any persons from whom you have received gifts/hospitality (or offer of) with an estimated value of more than £50 (whether or not you accept the offer) or totalling £100 over a year from a single source which is attributable to your position as an elected member of co-opted member of the Council.

Date Name of Donor Nature of gift/hospitality:

 

Not Applicable

Estimated Vale

 

 

 

 

NB. Sensitive interests: Where you believe you have a ‘sensitive interest’ (whether the interest is a “disclosable pecuniary interest” or not) you must notify the Monitoring Officer with the reasons why you believe it is a sensitive interest. If the Monitoring Officer agrees they will withhold the interest from the public register, but it will be recorded on the private register, with only the fact that ‘a sensitive interest’ exists noted on the public register without details being made public.

A ‘sensitive interest’ is as an interest which, if disclosed, could lead to the Councillor, or a person connected with the Councillor, being subject to violence or intimidation (see S32 of the Localism Act 2011 - Localism Act 2011).

Signed:

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

NOTES: FAILURE, WITHOUT REASONABLE EXCUSE, TO REGISTER A DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTEREST IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE UNDER S34 OF THE LOCALISM ACT 2011 AS WELL AS BEING

A BREACH OF THE MEMBERS’ CODE OF CONDUCT. A member must within 28 days of becoming aware of any change to the interests specified above, register details of that new interest or changeby providing written notification to the Council’s Monitoring Officer.

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