Budget Proposals – 2026/27 to 2030/31
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 10, Against 35, 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 (10)
- 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 (35)
- 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)
- Alan Dear (Conservative)
- Stephen Aylen (NON)
- Kathy Murphy (No Political Party)
Abstained (1)
- Nigel Folkard (Conservative)
From the minutes
(1) Absent for the vote: Cllrs Berry, Badger, Buck, F Evans and McMahon (5) Budget amendment 1 was not carried. Budget Amendment 2: For amendment 2: Cllrs Campbell, Cartey, Courtenay, Davidson, Garston, Habermel, Harland, Moyies, Salter and Warren (10) Against amendment 2: Cllrs Sam Allen, Stuart Allen, Aylen, Borton, Burton, Collins, Cowan, Cox, Dear, 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 (35) Abstentions: Cllr Folkard (Mayor) (1) Absent for the vote: Cllrs Berry, Badger, Buck, F Evans and McMahon (5) The budget amendment 2 was not carried. Budget Amendment 3:
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