2026-27 General Fund and HRA Revenue Budgets and Council Tax
Full council, 23 February 2026: a named vote on the amendment, lost.
For 20, Against 27, 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 (20)
- Andy Dent (Conservative)
- Brenda Seaton (Conservative)
- David Northage (Conservative)
- David Snartt (Conservative)
- Deborah Taylor (Conservative)
- Gina Jackson (Conservative)
- Glenn Matthews (Conservative)
- Hilary Fryer (Conservative)
- Jenny Bokor (Conservative)
- John Knight (Conservative)
- Leigh Harper-Davies (Conservative)
- Leon Hadji-Nikolaou (Conservative)
- Margaret Smidowicz (Conservative)
- Mark Charles (Conservative)
- Paul Baines (Conservative)
- Robin Popley (Conservative)
- Sarah Braker (Conservative)
- Sarah Fox (Conservative)
- Sarah Monk (Conservative)
- Matthew Brookes (Independent)
Against (27)
- Anne Gray (Labour)
- Beverley Gray (Labour)
- Birgitta Worrall (Labour)
- Claire Forrest (Labour)
- Colin Hamilton (Labour)
- Ian Ashcroft (Labour)
- Jane Lennie (Labour)
- Jenni Tillotson (Labour)
- Jewel Miah (Labour)
- Julie Palmer (Labour)
- Kanchan Jadeja (Labour)
- Liz Blackshaw (Labour)
- Louise Granger (Labour)
- Myriam Roberts (Labour)
- Nathaniel Taylor (Labour)
- Rhys Cory-Lowsley (Labour)
- Sandie Forrest (Labour)
- Sarah Goode (Labour)
- Sarah Maynard (Labour)
- Andy Haynes (Green)
- Chris O'Neill (Green)
- David Infield (Green)
- Geoff Lawrence (Green)
- Laurie Needham (Green)
- Naomi Bottomley (Green)
- Sandra Woodward (Green)
- Steve Bellamy (Green)
From the minutes
, the Council was holding £1.88m Business Rates income after Local Government Reorganisation costs, and this could cover the shortfall in income otherwise gained from raising Council Tax as proposed. For the amendment: Councillors Baines, Bokor, Braker, Brookes, Charles, Dent, Fox, Fryer, Hadji-Nikolaou, Harper-Davies, Jackson, Knight, Matthews, Monk, Northage, Popley, Seaton, Smidowicz, Snartt, D. Taylor. Against the amendment: Councillors Ashcroft, Bellamy, Blackshaw, Bottomley, Cory-Lowsley, C. Forrest, S. Forrest, Goode, A. Gray, B. Gray, Hamilton, Haynes, Infield, Jadeja, Lawrence, Lennie, Needham, Maynard, Miah, O'Neill, Palmer, Roberts, N. Taylor, Taylor-Durant, Tillotson, Woodward, Worrall. Abstentions: None. The amendment was defeated.
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.