Minutes
Full council, 23 February 2026: a named vote.
For 37, Against 23, Abstained 8.
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 (37)
- Adam Davies (Conservative)
- Alan Hopwood (Conservative)
- Alan Taylor (Conservative)
- Alex Dale (Conservative)
- Andrea Goddard (Conservative)
- Bryn Challenor (Conservative)
- Damian Corfield (Conservative)
- Daniel Bevan (Conservative)
- David Stanley (Conservative)
- Donna Harley (Conservative)
- Ed Lawrence (Conservative)
- Faye Barras (Conservative)
- Ian Bevan (Conservative)
- Ian Kettle (Conservative)
- Jeff Hill (Conservative)
- Kamran Razzaq (Conservative)
- Kerry Lewis (Conservative)
- Luke Johnson (Conservative)
- Mark Webb (Conservative)
- Patrick Harley (Conservative)
- Paul Bradley (Conservative)
- Pete Lee (Conservative)
- Peter Dobb (Conservative)
- Phil Atkins (Conservative)
- Simon Phipps (Conservative)
- Steve Clark (Conservative)
- Stuart Henley (Conservative)
- Sue Greenaway (Conservative)
- Thomas Russon (Conservative)
- Tony Creed (Conservative)
- Wayne Little (Conservative)
- Andrew Tromans (Liberal Democrats)
- Ethan Stafford (Liberal Democrats)
- Kash Khan (Liberal Democrats)
- Luke Hamblett (Liberal Democrats)
- Ryan Priest (Liberal Democrats)
- B Collins (not matched to a member)
Against (23)
- Adam Aston (Labour)
- Adeela Qayyum (Labour)
- Ashley Smith (Labour)
- Asif Ahmed (Labour)
- Carol Littler (Labour)
- Caroline Reid (Labour)
- Cat Eccles (Labour)
- Dave Roberts (Labour)
- Elaine Taylor (Labour)
- Ellen Cobb (Labour)
- Hilary Bills (Labour)
- Jackie Cowell (Labour)
- Jason Griffin (Labour)
- Keiran Casey (Labour)
- Keith Archer (Labour)
- Mohammed Hanif (Labour)
- Qasim Mughal (Labour)
- Shaneila Mughal (Labour)
- Shaukat Ali (Labour)
- Shazna Azad (Labour)
- Susan Ridney (Labour)
- Karl Denning (not matched to a member)
- Matthew Cook (not matched to a member)
Abstained (8)
- James Clinton (Reform UK)
- Jason Thorne (Reform UK)
- Shaun Keasey (Reform UK)
- Cathryn Bayton (Labour)
- Karen Westwood (not matched to a member)
- Peter Drake (not matched to a member)
- Peter Lowe (not matched to a member)
- Steve Edwards (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
o Council Procedure Rule 16.4 and under the provisions of the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, the voting on the substantive motion was recorded as follows: For (37) Councillors P Atkins, F Barras, D Bevan, I Bevan, P Bradley, B Challenor, S Clark, B Collins, D Corfield, T Creed, A Dale, A Davies, P Dobb, A Goddard, S Greenaway, L Hamblett, D Harley, P Harley, S Henley, J Hill, A Hopwood, L Johnson, I Kettle, K Khan, E Lawrence, P Lee, K Lewis, W Little, S Phipps, R Priest, K Razzaq, T Russon, E Stafford, D Stanley, A Taylor, A Tromans and M Webb. Against (23) Councillors A Ahmed, S Ali, K Archer, A Aston, S Azad, H Bills, K Casey, E Cobb, M Cook, J Cowell, K Denning, C Eccles, J Griffin, M Hanif, C Littler, Q Mughal, S Mughal, A Qayyum, C Reid, S Ridney, D Roberts, A Smith and E Taylor Abstain (8) Councillors C Bayton, J Clinton, P Drake, S Edwards, S Keasey, P Lowe, J Thorne and K Westwood. 79 Urgent Business There was no urgent business for consideration at this meeting. The meeting ended at 9.15pm MAYOR CL/84 Appendix 1 Labour Group A
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