Minutes
Full council, 17 September 2025: a named vote, lost.
For 16, Against 41, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (16)
- Andrew Wood (Liberal Democrats)
- Heather Fagan (Liberal Democrats)
- Julia Potts (Liberal Democrats)
- Malcolm Bond (Liberal Democrats)
- Margaret Crosby (Liberal Democrats)
- Niall Hodson (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Edgeworth (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Gibson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Walton (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen O'Brien (Liberal Democrats)
- Steven Donkin (Liberal Democrats)
- Dominic McDonough (Conservative)
- Michael Dixon (Conservative)
- Michael Hartnack (Conservative)
- James Warne (Independent)
- Melanie Thornton (Labour)
Against (41)
- Alex Samuels (Labour)
- Alison Smith (Labour)
- Allen Curtis (Labour)
- Brandon Feeley (Labour)
- Catherine Hunter (Labour)
- David Newey (Labour)
- Fiona Miller (Labour)
- Fiona Tobin (Labour)
- George Smith (Labour)
- Graeme Miller (Labour)
- Helen Glancy (Labour)
- Henry Trueman (Labour)
- Iain Scott (Labour)
- James Blackburn (Labour)
- Jill Fletcher (Labour)
- Joanne Chapman (Labour)
- John Price (Labour)
- Juliana Heron (Labour)
- Katherine Mason-Gage (Labour)
- Linda Williams (Labour)
- Lindsay Leonard (Labour)
- Lynda Scanlan (Labour)
- Lynne Dagg (Labour)
- Mark Burrell (Labour)
- Martyn Herron (Labour)
- Melville Speding (Labour)
- Michael Butler (Labour)
- Michael Mordey (Labour)
- Michael Walker (Labour)
- Paul Stewart (Labour)
- Peter Walker (Labour)
- Phil Tye (Labour)
- Sean Laws (Labour)
- Sophie Clinton (Labour)
- Stephen Elms (Labour)
- Stephen Foster (Labour)
- Susan Watson (Labour)
- Tracy Dodds (Labour)
- D E Snowdon (not matched to a member)
- D Snowdon (not matched to a member)
- Guy (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Ehthesham Haque (Labour)
From the minutes
onded by Councillor Hodson, for item 11 ‘Petitions' to be brought forward to ensure that they would be considered: - Upon being put to the vote the variation of order of business was defeated with 41 Members voting against: - Councillors Blackburn, Burrell, Butler, Chapman, Clinton, Curtis, Dagg, Dodds, Elms, Feeley, Fletcher, Foster, Glancy, Guy, Heron, Herron, Hunter, Laws, Leonard, Mason-Gage, F Miller, G Miller, Mordey, Newey, Price, Samuels, Scanlan, Scott, A Smith, G Smith, D Snowdon, D E Snowdon, Speding, Stewart, Tobin, H Trueman, Tye, P Walker, M Walker, Watson, Williams, And 16 Members voting in favour: - The Deputy Mayor (Councillor Thornton) Councillors Bond, Crosby, Dixon, Donkin, Edgeworth, Fagan, Gibson, Hartnack, Hodson, McDonough, O'Brien, Potts, Walton, Warne, Wood, And one Member abstaining: - The Mayor (Councillor Haque) Outstanding Motions from the Meeting of the Council on 25 June 2025 (ii) Notice of Motion – A National Care Service for England Councillor Smith requested to alter the wordin
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.