Political Balance, Allocation of Committee Seats and Committee Appointments
Full council, 27 May 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 19, Against 14, 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 (19)
- Barry Aspinell (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Rigby (Liberal Democrats)
- Brenner Munden (Liberal Democrats)
- Darryl Sankey (Liberal Democrats)
- David Kendall (Liberal Democrats)
- David Worsfold (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Gorton (Liberal Democrats)
- Jay Laplain (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Haigh (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Cuthbert (Liberal Democrats)
- Mrs Alison Fulcher (Liberal Democrats)
- Mrs Vicky Davies (Liberal Democrats)
- Nicky Cuthbert (Liberal Democrats)
- Nigel Clarke (Liberal Democrats)
- Philip Mynott (Liberal Democrats)
- Adrian Baldock (Independent)
- Mrs Sheila Murphy (Independent)
- Dr Tim Barrett (Labour)
- Gareth Barrett (Labour)
Against (14)
- Adam Chinnery (Conservative)
- Chrissy Gelderbloem (Conservative)
- Jay Patel (Conservative)
- Keith Barber (Conservative)
- Keith Parker (Conservative)
- Mrs Jan Pound (Conservative)
- Roger Hirst (Conservative)
- Will Russell (Conservative)
- Craig Thomson (Reform UK)
- Paul Godfrey (Reform UK)
- Peter Gregory (Reform UK)
- Philippa Nicholson (Reform UK)
- Russell Quirk (Reform UK)
- Sam Gascoyne (Reform UK)
From the minutes
mbers at the meeting. Cllr Aspinell MOVED and Cllr Worsfold SECONDED the recommendations. A recorded vote was requested by Cllr Barber and seconded by Cllr Russell, Hirst, Chinnery, Parker and Patel. FOR: Cllrs N Cuthbert, Rigby, Aspinell, Baldock, G Barrett, Dr T Barrett, Clarke, M Cuthbert, Davies, Fulcher, Gorton, Haigh, Kendall, Laplain, Munden, Murphy, Mynott, Sankey and Worsfold (19). AGAINST: Cllr Barber, Chinnery, Gascoyne, Gelderbloem, Godfrey, Gregory, Hirst, Nicholson, Parker, Patel, Pound, Quirk, Russell and Thomson (14). The Motion was CARRIED. Resolutions: R1: The allocation of seats set out in Appendix A was approved. R2: That nominations from the political groups
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.