Notices of Motion
Full council, 15 July 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 8, Against 23, Abstained 8.
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 (8)
- David Henly (Reform UK)
- Howard Tobias (Reform UK)
- James Francis (Reform UK)
- Michael Simpson (Reform UK)
- Peter Gammons (Reform UK)
- Ricky Ioannides (Reform UK)
- Ryan Coogan (Reform UK)
- Steve Lancaster (Reform UK)
Against (23)
- Alan Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Wood (Liberal Democrats)
- Ann Blackwell (Liberal Democrats)
- Brett Alistair Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Carole Innes (Liberal Democrats)
- Debbie Lydia Mickelburgh (Liberal Democrats)
- Geoff Seeff (Liberal Democrats)
- Jacqueline Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Joanna Elizabeth Harvey (Liberal Democrats)
- Liam Dewey-Beckett (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Young (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael John Burke (Liberal Democrats)
- Nathan James Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Nic Wells (Liberal Democrats)
- Nick Sarkies (Liberal Democrats)
- Sarah Joanne Conboy (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen Claffey (Liberal Democrats)
- Tom Sanderson (Liberal Democrats)
- Richard Tomlinson (Conservative)
- Lara Davenport-Ray (Green)
- Alex Bulat (not matched to a member)
- Julie Elizabeth Kerr (not matched to a member)
- Shariqa Mokbul (not matched to a member)
Abstained (8)
- Charlotte Ann Lowe (Conservative)
- David Norman Keane (Conservative)
- Douglas McIlwain (Conservative)
- Ian Derek Gardener (Conservative)
- Paul Simpson (Conservative)
- Ross Martin (Conservative)
- Simon Bywater (Conservative)
- Stephen Cawley (Conservative)
From the minutes
ollowing this debate in accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 the following Members voted for, against or abstained from a vote on the Motion. For (8) Councillors Coogan, Francis, Gammons, Henly, Ioannides, Lancaster, M Simpson and Tobias. Against (23) Councillors Blackwell, Bulat, Burke, Claffey, Conboy, Davenport-Ray, Dewey-Beckett, Harvey, N Hunt, A Hunt, J Hunt, Innes, Kerr, B Mickelburgh, D Mickelburgh, Mokbul, Sanderson, Sarkies, Seeff, Tomlinson, Wells, Wood and Young. Abstain (8) Councillors Bywater, Cawley, Gardener, Keane, Lowe, Martin, McIlwain and P Simpson. Having been put to the vote, the Motion was declared to be DEFEATED. The meeting adjourned at 9.03pm. The meeting resumed at 9.09pm. Councillor R Co
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