2026/27 Draft Council Budget
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 5, Against 42, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (5)
- Abi Smith (Green)
- Kevin Pressland (Green)
- Mike Garner (Green)
- Rob Yates (Green)
- Tricia Austin (Green)
Against (42)
- Alan Currie (Labour)
- Anne-Marie Nixey (Labour)
- Corinna Huxley (Labour)
- David Donaldson (Labour)
- David Green (Labour)
- Debra Owen-Hughes (Labour)
- Heather Keen (Labour)
- Helen Crittenden (Labour)
- Helen Whitehead (Labour)
- Jennifer Matterface (Labour)
- Jim Driver (Labour)
- John Edwards (Labour)
- Leo Britcher (Labour)
- Martin Boyd (Labour)
- Pat Makinson (Labour)
- Pat Moore (Labour)
- Raushan Ara (Labour)
- Rick Everitt (Labour)
- Roopa Farooki (Labour)
- Ruth Duckworth (Labour)
- Steve Albon (Labour)
- Tony Ovenden (Labour)
- Brenda Rogers (Conservative)
- Emma Dawson (Conservative)
- George Kup (Conservative)
- Jill Bayford (Conservative)
- John Davis (Conservative)
- John Nichols (Conservative)
- Linda Wright (Conservative)
- Marc Rattigan (Conservative)
- Matthew Scott (Conservative)
- Paul Moore (Conservative)
- Phil Fellows (Conservative)
- Reece Pugh (Conservative)
- Barry Manners (Reform UK)
- Darren Oxborrow (Reform UK)
- Peter Evans (Reform UK)
- John Dennis (Independent)
- H.Scobie (not matched to a member)
- J.Bright (not matched to a member)
- K.Bright (not matched to a member)
- W.Scobie (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
l cost of £90k. This will be funded from £185k of grant funding, which would otherwise be redirected to reserves.” The Monitoring Officer conducted a recorded vote on the amended motion as follows: 6 Councillors voted in favour of the amended motion: Councillors Austin, Garner, Pressland, Smith, Yates. 42 Councillors voted against the amended motion: Councillor Albon, Ara, Bayford, Boyd, J.Bright, K.Bright, Britcher, Crittenden, Currie, Davis, Dawson, Dennis, Donaldson, Driver, Duckworth, Edwards, Evans, Everitt, Farooki, Fellows, Green, Huxley, Keen, Kup, Makinson, Manners, Matterface, Pat Moore, Paul Moore, Nichols, Nixey, Ovenden, Oxborrow, Owen-Hughes, Pugh, Rattigan, Rogers, H.Scobie, W.Scobie, Scott, Whitehead and Wright. No Councillor voted to abstain. Councillor Austin proposed and Councillor Garner seconded the following amendment: “Introduce a one year £10k Safer Highways Fund for unparis
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