Arun District Council Budget - 2026/27
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the recommendations.
For 32, Against 14, Abstained 3.
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 (32)
- Billy Blanchard-Cooper (Liberal Democrats)
- Bob Woodman (Liberal Democrats)
- Francis Oppler (Liberal Democrats)
- Gill Yeates (Liberal Democrats)
- Henry Jones (Liberal Democrats)
- Jeanette Warr (Liberal Democrats)
- Jill Long (Liberal Democrats)
- Kenton Batley (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Lury (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Stanley (Liberal Democrats)
- Alan Butcher (Labour)
- Christine Wiltshire (Labour)
- George O'Neill (Labour)
- Maralyn May (Labour)
- Mike Northeast (Labour)
- Roger Nash (Labour)
- Anita Lawrence (Green)
- Carol Birch (Green)
- Mel Penycate (Green)
- Paul Ayling (Green)
- Sue Wallsgrove (Green)
- David Huntley (Independent)
- June Hamilton (Independent)
- Shirley Haywood (Independent)
- Steve Goodheart (AIG)
- Thomas Harty (AIG)
- Giuliano Pinnelli (Reform UK)
- Trevor Bence (Reform UK)
- Miss Wore (not matched to a member)
- Mrs Worne (not matched to a member)
- Stephen McAuliffe (not matched to a member)
- Walsh (not matched to a member)
Against (14)
- Gill Madeley (Conservative)
- Guy Purser (Conservative)
- Jacky Pendleton (Conservative)
- Joan English (Conservative)
- Keir Greenway (Conservative)
- Lesley-Anne Lloyd (Conservative)
- Mark Turner MBE. (Conservative)
- Paul Bicknell (Conservative)
- Paul Kelly (Conservative)
- Peggy Partridge (Conservative)
- Shaun Gunner (Conservative)
- Bower (not matched to a member)
- Cooper (not matched to a member)
- Mrs Cooper (not matched to a member)
Abstained (3)
- Roger Elkins (Conservative)
- Freddie Tandy (Labour)
- Mrs Bower (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
o the regeneration projects taking shape and nearing completion, demonstrating that clear action was taking place. In line with Council Procedure Rule 20.6 – the voting on the amendment was recorded. Those voting for the recommendations were Councillors Ayling, Batley, Bence, Birch, Blanchard-Cooper, Butcher, Goodheart, Hamilton, Harty, Haywood, Huntley, Jones, Lawrence, Long, Lury, May, McAuliffe, Nash, Northeast, O'Neill, Oppler, Penycate, Pinnelli, Stanley, Wallsgrove, Walsh, Warr, Wiltshire, Woodman, Mrs Worne, [name removed] and Yeates (32). Those voting against were Councillors Bicknell, Bower, Mrs Cooper, Cooper, English, Greenway, Gunner, Kelly, Lloyd, Madeley, Partridge, Pendleton, Purser and Turner (14). Councillors Mrs Bower, Elkins and Tandy abstained from voting (3). The council RESOLVED – That it (1) Approves the General Fund budget as set out in Appendix 1; (2) That Arun's Band D Council Tax for 2026/27 is set at
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.