2026/27 General Fund Budget and Council Tax Recommendations to Council and Medium-Term Financial Strategy 2026/27 to 2029/30
Full council, 18 February 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 29, Against 0, Abstained 12.
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 (29)
- Alison Arthur (Liberal Democrats)
- Gareth Owen-Williams (Liberal Democrats)
- Gavin Blake-Coggins (Liberal Democrats)
- Glynn White (Liberal Democrats)
- James Partridge (Liberal Democrats)
- Jane Clark (Liberal Democrats)
- Kelvin Williams (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Fairweather (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Coleshill (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Holbrook (Liberal Democrats)
- Alison Wilson (Green)
- Christina Coleman (Green)
- Diane Gould (Green)
- Dr Patricia Patterson-Vanegas (Green)
- Greg Collins (Green)
- Ian Tysh (Green)
- Jessika Hulbert (Green)
- Martyn Everitt (Green)
- Sarah Glynn-Ives (Green)
- Bernadette (Ben) Reed (Independent)
- Daniel Brookbank MBE (Independent)
- Daniel Shing (Independent)
- Donna French (Independent)
- Mike Gadd (Independent)
- Oi Lin Shing (Independent)
- Raymond Shing (Independent)
- Stephen Shing (Independent)
- Ben Cox (Labour)
- Daniel Manvell (Labour)
Abstained (12)
- Ann Newton (Conservative)
- Chris Primett (Conservative)
- Daniel Upton (Conservative)
- David Greaves (Conservative)
- Dr Brian Redman (Conservative)
- Johanna Howell (Conservative)
- Michael Lunn (Conservative)
- Neil Cleaver (Conservative)
- Richard Grocock (Conservative)
- Andrew Wilson (Independent)
- David White (Independent)
- Kevin Benton (Independent)
From the minutes
argets and the Council had more money coming in due to better government financial settlement. The Chair took a recorded vote on the motion as required by statute, which was carried. Recorded vote: · For: Councillors Arthur, Gavin Blake-Coggins, Brookbank, Clark, Coleman, Coleshill, Collins, Cox, Everitt, Fairweather, French, Gadd, Glynn-Ives, Gould, Holbrook, Hulbert, Manvell, Owen-Williams, Partridge, Patterson-Vanegas, Reed, Daniel Shing, Oi Lin Shing, Raymond Shing, Stephen Shing, Tysh, Glynn White, Williams, and Alison Wilson. (29) · Against: None. (0) · Abstain: Councillors Benton, Cleaver, Greaves, Grocock, Howell, Lunn, Newton, Primett, Redman, Upton, David White, and Andrew Wilson. (12) RESOLVED – a) To approve the Council freezes its share of Council Tax for 2026/27 at 2025/26 levels (a zero percent increase); b) To note the c
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