Notice of Motion - Use of Capital Receipt from Disposal of Occombe Farm
Full council, 23 July 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 16, Against 17, Abstained 0.
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 (16)
- Cat Johns (Liberal Democrats)
- Christine Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Cordelia Law (Liberal Democrats)
- George Darling (Liberal Democrats)
- Jermaine Atiya-Alla (Liberal Democrats)
- Kelly Harvey (Liberal Democrats)
- Mandy Darling (Liberal Democrats)
- Margaret Douglas-Dunbar (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Fox (Liberal Democrats)
- Nick Pentney (Liberal Democrats)
- Nigel Penny (Liberal Democrats)
- Ras Virdee (Liberal Democrats)
- Steve Darling (Liberal Democrats)
- Swithin Long (Liberal Democrats)
- Darren Cowell (Inds)
- Nicole Amil (Inds)
Against (17)
- Adam Billings (Conservative)
- Alan Tyerman (Conservative)
- Andrew Strang (Conservative)
- Anna Tolchard (Conservative)
- Barbara Lewis (Conservative)
- Chris Lewis (Conservative)
- David Thomas (Conservative)
- Hannah Stevens (Conservative)
- Hayley Tranter (Conservative)
- Hazel Foster (Conservative)
- Jacqueline Thomas (Conservative)
- John Fellows (Conservative)
- Mark Spacagna (Conservative)
- Martin Brook (Conservative)
- Nick Bye (Conservative)
- Steve Bryant (Conservative)
- Yvonne Twelves (Conservative)
From the minutes
annot be negotiated, the Director of Regeneration and Place Delivery shall prepare a report for Council to consider the compulsory purchase of this site. The voting was taken by roll call as follows: For: Councillors Amil, Atiya-Alla, Carter, Cowell, George Darling, Mandy Darling, Steve Darling, Douglas-Dunbar, Fox, Harvey, Johns, Law, Long, Penny, Pentney and Virdee (16); Against: Councillors Billings, Brook, Bryant, Bye, Fellows, Foster, Barbara Lewis, Chris Lewis, Spacagna, Stevens, Strang, David Thomas, Jackie Thomas, Tolchard, Tranter, Twelves and Tyerman (17); and Absent: Councillors Hutchings, Maddison and Nicolaou (3). The motion was therefore declared lost.
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.