PLANNING COMMITTEES AND THE NATIONAL SCHEME OF DELEGATION OF PLANNING FUNCTIONS
Full council, 20 October 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 13, Against 19, Abstained 1.
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 (13)
- Andrea Fraser (Conservative)
- Ciaran Reed (Conservative)
- Debbie Morris (Conservative)
- Ian Campbell (Conservative)
- Kavan Trivedi (Conservative)
- Kerry Milliken (Conservative)
- Krutika Patel (Conservative)
- Lisa Hudson (Conservative)
- Matthew Hunt (Conservative)
- Oliver Cooper (Conservative)
- Reena Ranger OBE (Conservative)
- Vicky Edwards (Conservative)
- Mike Sims (Independent)
Against (19)
- Aidan Bentley (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Scarth (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Lloyd (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Whately-Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- David Major (Liberal Democrats)
- Elinor Gazzard (Liberal Democrats)
- Harry Davies (Liberal Democrats)
- Jon Tankard (Liberal Democrats)
- Keith Martin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kevin Raeburn (Liberal Democrats)
- Louise Price (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Rainbow (Liberal Democrats)
- Shelley Gormley (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen Giles-Medhurst OBE (Liberal Democrats)
- Tom Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Tony Humphreys (Liberal Democrats)
- Joan King (Labour)
- Stephen Cox (Labour)
- Narinder Sian (Green)
Abstained (1)
- Chris Mitchell (Green)
From the minutes
inciple opposition and would clearly be contrary to the legalisation. A recorded vote was requested on the amendment. The result was 13 votes For, 19 Against and 1 Abstention. The amendment was Fell. Councillors For: Councillors Campbell, Cooper, Edwards, Fraser, Hudson, Hunt, Milliken, D Morris, Patel, Ranger, Reed, Sims and Trivedi (13) Councillors Against: Councillors Bentley, Cox, Davies, Gazzard, Giles-Medhurst, Gormley, Humphreys, King, Lloyd, Major, Martin, Price, Raeburn, Rainbow, Scarth, Sian, Smith, Tankard and Whately-Smith (19) Councillors Abstentions: Councillor Mitchell (1) The Council then resumed consideration of the substantive motion following a comfort break. Members expressed significant concern about the reduc
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