Council Tax Base Setting 2026/27 and Council Tax Support Scheme 2026/27
Full council, 26 January 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 46, Against 0, Abstained 4.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (46)
- Alison Raynsford (Labour)
- Alison Simpson (Labour)
- Angela Penrose (Labour)
- Anne Freeman (Labour)
- Bill Stevens (Labour)
- Charlotte Holloway (Labour)
- Chris Penberthy (Labour)
- Jemima Laing (Labour)
- Jeremy Goslin (Labour)
- John Stephens (Labour)
- Jon Dingle (Labour)
- Josh McCarty (Labour)
- Kate Taylor (Labour)
- Keith Moore (Labour)
- Kevin Sproston (Labour)
- Lewis Allison (Labour)
- Lindsay Gilmour (Labour)
- Maria Lawson (Labour)
- Mark Coker (Labour)
- Mark Lowry (Labour)
- Mary Aspinall (Labour)
- Matt Smith (Labour)
- Neil Hendy (Labour)
- Paul McNamara (Labour)
- Pauline Murphy (Labour)
- Ray Morton (Labour)
- Sally Cresswell (Labour)
- Sarah Allen (Labour)
- Stefan Krizanac (Labour)
- Sue Dann (Labour)
- Tess Blight (Labour)
- Tina Tuohy (Labour)
- Tom Briars-Delve (Labour)
- Tudor Evans OBE (Labour)
- Will Noble (Labour)
- Andy Lugger (Conservative)
- Chip Tofan (Conservative)
- Chris Wood (Conservative)
- Ian Darcy (Conservative)
- Carol Ney (TIND)
- Sally Nicholson (TIND)
- Steve Ricketts (TIND)
- Ian Poyser (Green)
- Lauren McLay (Green)
- Zoe Reilly (Independent)
- Dylan Tippetts (not matched to a member)
Abstained (4)
- Andrea Loveridge (TIND)
- Maddi Bridgeman (TIND)
- Patrick Nicholson (TIND)
- Terri Beer (Independent)
From the minutes
for 2026/27 of 76,887 equivalent Band D dwellings as set out in the report. 2. The continuation of the current Council Tax Support scheme and Exceptional Hardship Scheme for 2026/27 with no updates. For: (46) Councillors Allen, Allison, Aspinall, Blight, Briars-Delve, Coker, Cresswell, Dann, Darcy, Dingle, Evans OBE, Freeman, Gilmour, Goslin, Hendy, Holloway, Krizanac, Laing, Lawson, Lowry, Lugger, McCarty, McLay, McNamara, M. Smith, Moore, Morton, Murphy, Ney, Noble, Penberthy, Penrose, Poyser, Raynsford, Reilly, Ricketts, Simpson, S. Nicholson, Sproston, Stephens, Stevens, Taylor, Tippetts, Tofan, Tuohy, Wood. Against: (0) Abstain: (4) Councillors Mrs Beer, Mrs Bridgeman, Loveridge and P. Nicholson. Absent/did not vote: (1) Councillors Ms Watkin.
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.