Motions
Full council, 4 September 2025: a named vote, lost.
For 13, Against 18, 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 (13)
- Anant Mathur (Conservative)
- Buddhi Weerasinghe (Conservative)
- Darren Clarke (Conservative)
- Denise Saliagopoulos (Conservative)
- Karen Howkins (Conservative)
- Matthew Lee (Conservative)
- Maureen Attewell (Conservative)
- Naz Islam (Conservative)
- Rose Chandler (Conservative)
- Simon Bhadye (Conservative)
- Sinead Mooney (Conservative)
- Med Buck (Labour)
- Brenan (not matched to a member)
Against (18)
- Chris Bateson (Liberal Democrats)
- Greg Neall (Liberal Democrats)
- Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats)
- Jolyon Caplin (Liberal Democrats)
- Kathy Grant (Liberal Democrats)
- Lawrence Nichols (Liberal Democrats)
- Michele Gibson (Liberal Democrats)
- Sandra Dunn (Liberal Democrats)
- Suraj Gyawali (Liberal Democrats)
- Daniel Geraci (ISG)
- Joanne Sexton (ISG)
- Katherine Rutherford (ISG)
- Michelle Arnold (ISG)
- John Doran (Labour)
- Jon Button (Labour)
- Sean Beatty (Labour)
- Tony Burrell (Labour)
- Malcolm Beecher (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
oncerns raised by residents and stop its use as an asylum seeker centre. We ask all councillors to support this motion”. Councillor Howkins requested a named vote on Councillor Buck's amended motion. For Councillors Attewell, Bhadye, Brenan, Buck, Chandler, Clarke, Howkins, Islam, Lee, Mathur, Mooney, Saliagopoulos, Weerasinghe, Woodward – 14 votes Against Councillors J Doran, Dunn, Arnold, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Boparai, Burrell, Button, Caplin, Geraci, Gibson, Grant, Gyawali, Neall, Nichols, Rutherford, Sexton, Williams – 19 votes Abstain 0 votes Councillor Buck's amended motion FELL. Council was asked to vote on the substantive motion that was put forward by Councillor Sexton. Council resolved to agree the following m
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.