Recommendation from Governance and Audit Committee - Proposed Amendment to Council Procedure Rules - Recorded Vote Threshold
Full council, 26 January 2026: a named vote, carried.
For 18, Against 6, 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 (18)
- Frazer Brown (Conservative)
- Ian Fleetwood (Conservative)
- John Barrett (Conservative)
- Maureen Palmer (Conservative)
- Mrs Angela Lawrence (Conservative)
- Mrs Jackie Brockway (Conservative)
- Owen Bierley (Conservative)
- Peter Morris (Conservative)
- Roger Patterson (Conservative)
- Tom Smith (Conservative)
- Emma Bailey (Liberal Democrats)
- Lynda Mullally (Liberal Democrats)
- Moira Westley (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Swift (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen Bunney (Liberal Democrats)
- Karen Carless (Independent)
- Mrs Diana Rodgers (Independent)
- Paul Key (LIND)
Against (6)
- David Dobbie (Liberal Democrats)
- Mrs Lesley Rollings (Liberal Democrats)
- Sabastian Hague (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Young (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Howitt-Cowan (Independent)
- Christopher Darcel (LIND)
From the minutes
ST. With no new points being raised, the original motion was put to the vote, and again two Members requested that the vote be held by way of recorded vote. Votes were cast in the following manner: - For: Councillors Bailey, Barrett, Bierley, Brockway, Brown, Bunney, Carless, Fleetwood, Key, Lawrence, Morris, Mullally, Palmer, Patterson, Rodgers, Smith, Swift, and Westley (18) Against: Councillors Dobbie, Darcel, Hague, Howitt-Cowan, Rollings, Young (6) Abstentions: (0) With a total of 18 votes cast for the motion, and 6 votes against, the motion was declared CARRIED and on that basis it was: - RESOLVED that the recommendation from the Governance and
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