Medium Term Financial Strategy 2026-29
Full council, 26 February 2026: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 40, Against 14, Abstained 0.
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 (40)
- Anita Cherryholme (Labour)
- Ashley Peace (Labour)
- Brenda Eastwood (Labour)
- Caroline Makinson (Labour)
- Dave Leech (Labour)
- Deborah Pearson (Labour)
- Dorothy Coates (Labour)
- Ian Shirt (Labour)
- James Higginbottom (Labour)
- Janine Bowler (Labour)
- Janine Moyes (Labour)
- Jo Newing (Labour)
- Joe Hayward (Labour)
- John Clarke JP (Labour)
- John Roberts (Labour)
- Karen Dyson (Labour)
- Ken Richardson Msc (Labour)
- Kevin Osborne (Labour)
- Margaret Sheard (Labour)
- Martin Morrell (Labour)
- Martin O'Donoghue (Labour)
- Mick Stowe (Labour)
- Neil Wright (Labour)
- Nicola Sumner (Labour)
- Paul Murray (Labour)
- Pauline Markham (Labour)
- Pauline McCarthy (Labour)
- Phillip Lofts (Labour)
- Robert Frost (Labour)
- Robin Franklin (Labour)
- Roy Bowser (Labour)
- Ruth Booker (Labour)
- Sarah Tattersall (Labour)
- Sharon Howard (Labour)
- Sir Stephen Houghton CBE (Labour)
- Steve Green (Labour)
- Sue Bellamy (Labour)
- Tim Shepherd (Labour)
- Trevor Cave (Labour)
- Wendy Cain (Labour)
Against (14)
- Andy Waters (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Wray (Liberal Democrats)
- Clive Pickering (Liberal Democrats)
- David Greenhough (Liberal Democrats)
- Dickie Denton (Liberal Democrats)
- Hannah Kitching (Liberal Democrats)
- Mandy Lowe-Flello (Liberal Democrats)
- Philip Wright (Liberal Democrats)
- Stephen Bullcock (Liberal Democrats)
- Steve Hunt (Liberal Democrats)
- Will Fielding (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Wray (Independent)
- Jake Lodge (Independent)
- Robert Barnard (Conservative)
From the minutes
. The original motion was then debated and put to the vote. In favour of the motion, present at the time of voting:- Councillors Bellamy, Booker, Bowler, Bowser, Cain, T Cave, Cherryholme, Clarke, Coates, Dyson, Eastwood, Franklin, Frost, Green, Hayward, Higginbottom, Houghton, Howard, Leech, Lofts, Makinson, Markham, McCarthy, Morrell, Moyes, Murray, Newing, O'Donoghue, Osborne, Peace, Pearson, Richardson, Roberts, Sheard, Shepherd, Shirt, Stowe, Sumner, Tattersall, and N Wright. Against the motion, present at the time of voting:- Councillors Barnard, Bullcock, Denton, Fielding, Greenhough, Hunt, Kitching, Lodge, Lowe-Flello, Pickering, Waters, A Wray, C Wray and P Wright. Abstentions:- There were no abstentions. RESOLVED:- 1. 2026/27 Revenue Budget, Capital Programme and Council Tax a) to accept the report of the Director of Finance (S151 Officer), under Sec
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.