Local Government Reorganisation in Greater Essex - Proposal for the Creation of Five New Unitary Authorities
Full council, 17 September 2025: a named vote, carried.
For 39, Against 0, Abstained 6.
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 (39)
- Carl Powling (Conservative)
- Darius Laws (Conservative)
- Dennis Willetts (Conservative)
- Jeremy Hagon (Conservative)
- Kevin Bentley (Conservative)
- Martin Parsons (Conservative)
- Paul Dundas (Conservative)
- Robert Davidson (Conservative)
- Roger Buston (Conservative)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Sue Lissimore (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
- Will Calverley (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Chris Pearson (Labour)
- Claire Osborne (Labour)
- Dave Harris (Labour)
- Elizabeth Alake-Akinyemi (Labour)
- Fay Smalls (Labour)
- Jocelyn Law (Labour)
- Julie Young (Labour)
- Lee Scordis (Labour)
- Martyn Warnes (Labour)
- Sam McLean (Labour)
- Tim Young (Labour)
- Alison Jay (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrea Luxford Vaughan (Liberal Democrats)
- David King (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Cory (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Goss (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- Natalie Sommers (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Sam McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- Tracy Arnold (Liberal Democrats)
- Venessa Moffat (Liberal Democrats)
- Amy Kirkby-Taylor (Green)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
Abstained (6)
- Andrew Ellis (Conservative)
- Leigh Tate (Conservative)
- Catherine Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- Sean Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Independent)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
From the minutes
ABSTAINED from voting). A named vote having been requested pursuant to Council Procedure Rule 15(2) by Councillor Willetts, supported by Councillors Dundas and Lissimore, the voting was as follows:- FOR: Councillors Alake-Akinyemi, Arnold, Cory, Çufoglu, Goacher, Goss, Harris, Jay, King, Kirkby-Taylor, Law, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, McLean, Moffat, Osborne, Pearson, Scordis, Smalls, Smith, Sommers, M. Spindler, Warnes, J. Young and T. Young. AGANST: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Buston, Calverley, Davidson, Dundas, Hagon, Laws, Lissimore, Naylor, Parsons, Powling, Rowe, Sunnucks and Willetts. ABSTAINED FROM VOTING: Councillors Kelly, Scott-Boutell, C. Spindler, Tate, the Deputy Mayor (Ellis) and the Mayor (Lilley).
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.