Report of Cabinet - 18 February 2026
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote.
For 14, Against 26, Abstained 2.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (14)
- Alex Wade (Liberal Democrats)
- Caroline Rackham (Liberal Democrats)
- Colm McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- David Harrison (Liberal Democrats)
- David Millar (Liberal Democrats)
- Jack Davies (Liberal Democrats)
- Malcolm Wade (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Clark (Liberal Democrats)
- Patrick Mballa (Liberal Democrats)
- Phil Woods (Liberal Democrats)
- Philip Dowd (Liberal Democrats)
- Sean Cullen (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephanie Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Adam Parker (Green)
Against (26)
- Alan Alvey (Conservative)
- Alan O'Sullivan (Conservative)
- Allan Glass (Conservative)
- Alvin Reid (Conservative)
- Barry Rickman (Conservative)
- Christine Ward (Conservative)
- Dan Poole (Conservative)
- Dave Penny (Conservative)
- David Hawkins (Conservative)
- Derek Tipp (Conservative)
- Geoffrey Blunden (Conservative)
- Ian Murray (Conservative)
- Jeremy Heron (Conservative)
- Jill Cleary (Conservative)
- John Adams (Conservative)
- John Sleep (Conservative)
- Kate Crisell (Conservative)
- Matthew Hartmann (Conservative)
- Neil Tungate (Conservative)
- Neville Penman (Conservative)
- Richard Frampton (Conservative)
- Steve Davies (Conservative)
- Steve Rippon-Swaine (Conservative)
- Joe Reilly (Independent)
- Nigel Linford (Independent)
- Michael Thierry (not matched to a member)
Abstained (2)
- Jacqui England (Independent)
- Peter Armstrong (Independent)
From the minutes
made is attached to these minutes. The Council debated the Cabinet's budget proposals together with the alternative budget. The outcome of the recorded vote on the alternative budget was as follows:- Voting for: Cllrs M Clark, Cullen, J Davies, Dowd, Harrison, Mballa, McCarthy, Millar, Osborne, Parker, Rackham, A Wade, M Wade and Woods Voting against: Cllrs Adams, Alvey, Blunden, Cleary, Crisell, S Davies, Frampton, Glass, Hartmann, Hawkins, Heron, Linford, Murray, O'Sullivan, Penman, Penny, Poole, Reid, Reilly, Rickman, Rippon-Swaine, Sleep, Thierry, Tipp, Tungate, Ward Abstaining: Cllr Armstrong, England and Richards The alternative budget was lost, 14 in favour, 26 against, 3 abstaining. The outcome of the recorded vote on the budget as outlined in the report of Cabinet, was as follows:
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.