Budget Proposals – 2026/27 to 2030/31
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 11, Against 34, Abstained 1.
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 (11)
- Alan Dear (Conservative)
- Colin Campbell (Conservative)
- David Garston (Conservative)
- Jack Warren (Conservative)
- James Courtenay (Conservative)
- James Moyies (Conservative)
- John Harland (Conservative)
- Lesley Salter (Conservative)
- Meg Davidson (Conservative)
- Owen Cartey (Conservative)
- Stephen Habermel (Conservative)
Against (34)
- Anne Jones (Labour)
- Cheryl Nevin (Labour)
- Chris Webster (Labour)
- Daniel Cowan (Labour)
- Donna Richardson (Labour)
- Ian Gilbert (Labour)
- Irene Ferguson (Labour)
- Jane Norman (Labour)
- Kevin Robinson (Labour)
- Laurie Burton (Labour)
- Lydia Hyde (Labour)
- Madison Faulkner-Hatt (Labour)
- Mandy O'Connor (Labour)
- Margaret Borton (Labour)
- Matt Dent (Labour)
- Maxine Sadza (Labour)
- Pamela Kinsella (Labour)
- Sam Allen (Labour)
- Shahid Nadeem (Labour)
- Martin Terry (Independent)
- Nick Ward (Independent)
- Ron Woodley (Independent)
- Steven Wakefield (Independent)
- Carole Mulroney (Liberal Democrats)
- Dave Poulton (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Collins (Liberal Democrats)
- Robert McMullan (Liberal Democrats)
- Daniel Nelson (Reform UK)
- Darryl Jones (Reform UK)
- Tony Cox (Reform UK)
- Richard Longstaff (Green)
- Stuart Allen (Green)
- Stephen Aylen (NON)
- Kathy Murphy (No Political Party)
Abstained (1)
- Nigel Folkard (Conservative)
From the minutes
r to the meeting and added as a supplementary document on the Council's website. The amendments were voted on by way of a named vote as required by law. The voting was as follows: Budget Amendment 1: For amendment 1: Cllrs Campbell, Cartey, Courtenay, Davidson, Dear, Garston, Habermel, Harland, Moyies, Salter and Warren (11) Against amendment 1: Cllrs Sam Allen, Stuart Allen, Aylen, Borton, Burton, Collins, Cowan, Cox, Dent, Faulkner-Hatt, Ferguson, Gilbert, Hyde, Anne Jones, Darryl Jones, Kinsella, Webster, Longstaff, McMullan, Mulroney, Murphy, Nadeem, Nelson, Nevin, Norman, O'Connor, Poulton, Richardson, Robinson, Sadza, Terry, Wakefield, Ward and Woodley (34) Abstentions Cllr Folkard (Mayor) (1) Absent for the vote: Cllrs Berry, Badger, Buck, F Evans and McMahon (5) Budget amendment 1 was not carried. Budget Amendment 2:
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.