Final 2026/27 Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy (2027/28 to 2029/30) including Capital Programme
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the motion, lost.
For 18, Against 32, 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 (18)
- Adela Eva Costello (Conservative)
- Andrew Rayner Jennings (Conservative)
- Charlotte Ann Lowe (Conservative)
- David Norman Keane (Conservative)
- Eric Richard Butler (Conservative)
- Ian Derek Gardener (Conservative)
- Jeff Clarke (Conservative)
- Jon Neish (Conservative)
- Jonathan Alexander Gray (Conservative)
- Kevin Paul Gulson (Conservative)
- Marge Lawrie Beuttell (Conservative)
- Paul James Hodgson-Jones (Conservative)
- Ross Martin (Conservative)
- Simon Bywater (Conservative)
- Stephen Cawley (Conservative)
- Stephen John Corney (Conservative)
- Steve Criswell (Conservative)
- Tim Alban (Conservative)
Against (32)
- Brett Alistair Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Catherine McIntyre Gleadow (Liberal Democrats)
- Clare Hannah Tevlin (Liberal Democrats)
- Dave John Shaw (Liberal Democrats)
- Debbie Lydia Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Douglas Bernard Dew (Liberal Democrats)
- James Roger Catmur (Liberal Democrats)
- Joanna Elizabeth Harvey (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael John Burke (Liberal Democrats)
- Nathan James Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Nic Wells (Liberal Democrats)
- Patricia Ann Jordan (Liberal Democrats)
- Sally Ann Howell (Liberal Democrats)
- Sarah Joanne Conboy (Liberal Democrats)
- Lara Davenport-Ray (Green)
- Stephen William Ferguson (Green)
- Ann Blackwell (not matched to a member)
- Barry Sidney Banks (not matched to a member)
- Barry Stephen Chapman (not matched to a member)
- Ben Michael Pitt (not matched to a member)
- Doug Terry (not matched to a member)
- Dr Marcus Pickering (not matched to a member)
- Ian Pele Taylor (not matched to a member)
- Julie Elizabeth Kerr (not matched to a member)
- Marion Kadewere (not matched to a member)
- Martin Andrew Hassall (not matched to a member)
- Patrick Kadewere (not matched to a member)
- Richard Andrew Slade (not matched to a member)
- Sam Wakeford (not matched to a member)
- Shariqa Mokbul (not matched to a member)
- Steve Richard McAdam (not matched to a member)
- Tom Sanderson (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
f the Section 151 Officer. Following debate the amendment in accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 the following Members voted for, against or abstained from the Motion – To provide one hour free parking in all council short term car parks, to reduce the garden waste subscription, to provide additional funding for planning enforcement and handyman services, whilst freezing council tax and increasing the future financial stability reserve over the course of the MTFS. For the Motion (18) – Councillors Alban, Beuttell, Butler, Bywater, Cawley, Clarke, Corney, Costello, Criswell, Gardener, Gray, Gulson, Hodgson-Jones, Jennings, Keane, Lowe, Martin, Neish Against the Motion (32) – Councillors Banks, Blackwell, Burke, Catmur, Chapman, Conboy, Davenport-Ray, Dew, Ferguson, Gleadow, Harvey, Hassall, Howell, Hunt, Jordan, Kadewere M, Kadewere P, Kerr, McAdam, Mickelburgh B, Mickelburgh D, Mokbul, Pickering, Pitt, Sanderson, Shaw, Slade, Taylor I, Terry, Tevlin, Wakeford, Wells Abstentions (0) – None Following the conclusion of the recorded vote, the amendment was declared to be LOST. In returning to the debate and discussion
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