2026/27 CAPITAL INVESTMENT BUDGET AND CAPITAL STRATEGY UPDATE
Full council, 13 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 35, Against 0, Abstained 15.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (35)
- Allan Williams (Conservative)
- Barry Durkin (Conservative)
- Carole Gandy (Conservative)
- Dan Hurcomb (Conservative)
- Dave Davies (Conservative)
- Elissa Swinglehurst (Conservative)
- Frank Cornthwaite (Conservative)
- Graham Biggs (Conservative)
- Harry Bramer (Conservative)
- John Stone (Conservative)
- Jonathan Lester (Conservative)
- Pete Stoddart (Conservative)
- Peter Hamblin (Conservative)
- Philip Price (Conservative)
- Richard Thomas (Conservative)
- Robert Highfield (Conservative)
- Roger Phillips (Conservative)
- Simeon Cole (Conservative)
- Chris Bartrum (Liberal Democrats)
- Jacqui Carwardine (Liberal Democrats)
- Kevin Tillett (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Dykes (Liberal Democrats)
- Polly Andrews (Liberal Democrats)
- Terry James (Liberal Democrats)
- Charlotte Taylor (IFH)
- Dave Boulter (IFH)
- Diana Toynbee (IFH)
- Elizabeth Foxton (IFH)
- Liz Harvey (IFH)
- Clare Davies (True Ind)
- Ivan Powell (True Ind)
- Mark Woodall (Green)
- Jim Kenyon (Independent)
- Adam Spencer (Labour)
- Nick Mason (No party recorded)
Abstained (15)
- Catherine Gennard (Green)
- Helen Heathfield (Green)
- Jenny Bartlett (Green)
- Justine Peberdy (Green)
- Rebecca Tully (Green)
- Stef Simmons (Green)
- Toni Fagan (Green)
- Aubrey Oliver (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Proctor (Liberal Democrats)
- Ed O'Driscoll (Liberal Democrats)
- Louis Stark (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Owens (Liberal Democrats)
- David Hitchiner (IFH)
- Matthew Engel (IFH)
- Pauline Crockett (IFH)
From the minutes
conded the report and the recommendations. Council debated the report. The 2026/27 capital investment budget and capital strategy update was put to the recorded vote and carried by a simple majority. FOR (35): Councillors Andrews, Bartrum, Biggs, Boulter, Bramer, Carwardine, Cole, Cornthwaite, Clare Davies, Dave Davies, Durkin, Dykes, Foxton, Gandy, Hamblin, Harvey, Highfield, Hurcomb, James, Kenyon, Lester, Mason, Phillips, Ivan Powell, Price, Spencer, Stoddart, Stone, Swinglehurst, Taylor, Thomas, Tillett, Toynbee, Allan Williams and Woodall. Against (0): Abstentions (15): Councillors Bartlett, Crockett, Engel, Fagan, Gennard, Heathfield, Hitchiner, O'Driscoll, Oliver, Owens, Peberdy, Proctor, Simmons, Stark and Tully. RESOLVED: That: Council: a) Approve the revised capital programme for 2026/27 attached at appendix C; b) Approve the capital strategy at appendix D;
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