Motion submitted by Cllr I Spratt - Local Government Reorganisation
Full council, 20 July 2026: a named vote on the motion, lost.
For 14, Against 24, 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 (14)
- Deborah Sacks (Labour)
- Georgina Race (Labour)
- James Eddy (Labour)
- Jenny McCloskey (Labour)
- John Morland (Labour)
- Justin Cork (Labour)
- Nicola Fowler (Labour)
- Bob McClenning (Liberal Democrats)
- Carmina McConnell (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Brown (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Spratt (Liberal Democrats)
- Jim Webber (Liberal Democrats)
- Suzanne Nuri-Nixon (Liberal Democrats)
- Terry Laidlaw (Liberal Democrats)
Against (24)
- Andrew Evans (Conservative)
- Daniel Elmer (Conservative)
- David Bills (Conservative)
- Delme Thompson (Conservative)
- Graham Minshull (Conservative)
- James Easter (Conservative)
- Jonathan Carver (Conservative)
- Jonathan Purle (Conservative)
- Josh Woolliscroft (Conservative)
- Kathryn Cross (Conservative)
- Keith Kiddie (Conservative)
- Kieran Murphy (Conservative)
- Kim Carsok (Conservative)
- Lisa Overton-Neal (Conservative)
- Margaret Dewsbury (Conservative)
- Martyn Hooton (Conservative)
- Richard Elliott (Conservative)
- Robert Savage (Conservative)
- Trevor Graham (Conservative)
- Vic Thomson (Conservative)
- Gary Blundell (SNI)
- Sharon Blundell (SNI)
- Clayton Hudson (Independent)
- Mason Billig (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
supported by five Members. The vote was taken and recorded as follows: Cllrs Brown, Cork, Eddy, Fowler, Laidlaw, McClenning, McCloskey, McConnell, Morland, Nuri-Nixon, Race, Sacks, Spratt, and Webber voted for the motion Cllrs, Bills, G Blundell, S Blundell, Carsok, Carver, Cross, Dewsbury, Easter, Elliott, Elmer, Evans, Graham, Hooton, Hudson, Kiddie, Mason Billig, Minshull, Murphy, Overton-Neal, Purle, Savage, Thompson, Thomson, and Woolliscroft, voted against the motion. With 14 in favour, and 24 against, the motion was lost.
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.