Proposal for Local Government Reorganisation in Derbyshire
Full council, 6 November 2025: a named vote, carried.
For 17, Against 8, Abstained 3.
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 (17)
- David Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
- Joanne Linthwaite (Liberal Democrats)
- Marilyn Franks (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Burfoot (Liberal Democrats)
- Nick Wilton (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Dobbs (Liberal Democrats)
- Steve Flitter (Liberal Democrats)
- Sue Burfoot (Liberal Democrats)
- David Chapman (Conservative)
- Dermot Murphy (Conservative)
- Geoff Bond (Conservative)
- Sue Bull (Conservative)
- Bob Butcher (Labour)
- Dawn Greatorex (Labour)
- Lucy Peacock (Labour)
- Peter Slack (Labour)
- Neil Buttle (Green)
Against (8)
- Anthony Bates (Conservative)
- John Bointon (Conservative)
- Stuart Lees (Conservative)
- Susan Hobson (Conservative)
- Gareth Gee (DF)
- Nigel Norman Edwards-Walker (DF)
- Nick Whitehead (Green)
- Steve Wain (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (3)
- Andy Nash (Labour)
- Simon Ripton (Labour)
- Roger Shelley (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
n LOST. 2. That Council approves a preferred option for Local Government Reorganisation from the following: • Option A as a ‘base option,' requesting modification to Option A (A1) (preferred option). Vote For – 17 Councillors: Geoff Bond, Sue Bull, Martin Burfoot, Sue Burfoot, Bob Butcher, Neil Buttle, David Chapman, Peter Dobbs, Steve Flitter, Marilyn Franks, Dawn Greatorex, David Hughes, Joanne Linthwaite, Dermot Murphy, Lucy Peacock, Peter Slack, Nick Wilton. Against – 8 Councillors: Anthony Bates, John Bointon, Nigel Edwards-Walker, Gareth Gee, Susan Hobson, Stuart Lees, Steve Wain, Nick Whitehead. Abstain – 3 Councillors: Andy Nash, Simon Ripton, Roger Shelley. The Chair declared the motion CARRIED. 3. That Council delegates authority to the Chief Executive to submit the Council's preferred option for Local
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