Councils · Eastbourne Borough Council

Council Budget and Setting of the Council Tax for 2025/26

Full council, 5 March 2025: a named vote, carried.

For 8, Against 17, Abstained 0.

Party in overall control of the council on the date: Liberal Democrats. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.

For (8)

• Colin Belsey (Conservative)
• David Small (Conservative)
• Jane Lamb (Conservative)
• Kshama Shore OBE (Conservative)
• Nick Ansell (Conservative)
• Nigel Goodyear (Conservative)
• Penny di Cara (Conservative)
• Robert Smart (Conservative)

Against (17)

• Alan Shuttleworth (Liberal Democrats)
• Ali Dehdashty (Liberal Democrats)
• Amanda Morris (Liberal Democrats)
• Andy Collins (Liberal Democrats)
• Candy Vaughan (Liberal Democrats)
• Christina Ewbank (Liberal Democrats)
• Colin Swansborough (Liberal Democrats)
• Daniel Butcher (Liberal Democrats)
• Hugh Parker (Liberal Democrats)
• Jenny Williams (Liberal Democrats)
• Jim Murray (Liberal Democrats)
• Kathy Ballard (Liberal Democrats)
• Margaret Bannister (Liberal Democrats)
• Pat Rodohan (Liberal Democrats)
• Peter Diplock (Liberal Democrats)
• Stephen Holt (Liberal Democrats)
• Teri Sayers-Cooper (Liberal Democrats)

From the minutes

of debt. The Council then debated the proposals and the amendment together. In accordance with legislation, the amendment proposed by Councillor Small was put to a recorded vote and lost as follows: For (8): Councillors Ansell, Belsey, di Cara, Goodyear, Lamb, Shore, Small and Smart. Against (17): Councillors Ballard, Bannister, Butcher, Collins, Dehdashty, Diplock, Ewbank, Holt, Morris, Murray, Parker, Rodohan, Sayers-Cooper, Shuttleworth, Swansborough, Vaughan and Williams. Abstentions: none The budget as proposed by Councillor Butcher and set out in the agenda papers was put to a recorded vote as follows and carried:

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.