Update on Local Government Reorganisation
Full council, 9 July 2025: a named vote on the motion.
For 39, Against 15, Abstained 4.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Reform UK. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (39)
- Adrian Hunter (Reform UK)
- Alan Graves (Reform UK)
- Carol Wood (Reform UK)
- Charlotte Gates (Reform UK)
- Charlotte Hill (Reform UK)
- Dan Price (Reform UK)
- Darren Muizelaar (Reform UK)
- David Elsdon (Reform UK)
- David Harvey (Reform UK)
- Dawn Taylor (Reform UK)
- Jack Bradley (Reform UK)
- Jamie Hodgson (Reform UK)
- Jason Isherwood (Reform UK)
- Jodie Brown (Reform UK)
- John Lawson (Reform UK)
- Joss Barnes (Reform UK)
- Kevin Harper (Reform UK)
- Lewis Whitbread (Reform UK)
- Mark Chambers (Reform UK)
- Mark Cliff (Reform UK)
- Martin Bromley (Reform UK)
- Matthew Benfield (Reform UK)
- Melandra Smith (Reform UK)
- Nephi Somerville (Reform UK)
- Nick Adams (Reform UK)
- Paul Oxberry (Reform UK)
- Paul Parkin (Reform UK)
- Peter Mathews (Reform UK)
- Richard Hatfield (Reform UK)
- Richard Smith (Reform UK)
- Robert Reaney (Reform UK)
- Roy Hallett (Reform UK)
- Sam Redfern (Reform UK)
- Sarah Reaney (Reform UK)
- Simon Mabbott (Reform UK)
- Stephen Reed (Reform UK)
- Stuart Bent (Reform UK)
- Anne Clarke (Labour)
- Damien Greenhalgh (Labour)
Against (15)
- Alasdair Sutton (Conservative)
- Alex Dale (Conservative)
- Carol Hart (Conservative)
- Martyn Ford (Conservative)
- Nigel Gourlay (Conservative)
- Paul Maginnis (Conservative)
- Steve Bull (Conservative)
- Susan Hobson (Conservative)
- Wayne Major (Conservative)
- Ed Fordham (Liberal Democrats)
- Sue Burfoot (Liberal Democrats)
- Tom Snowdon (Liberal Democrats)
- Amy Wheelton (DIND)
- Ruth George (DIND)
- Joseph Turrell (Reform UK)
Abstained (4)
- Gez Kinsella (Green)
- Rachael Hatchett (Green)
- Emma Monkman (Labour)
- Alex Millward (Reform UK)
From the minutes
ment of a proposal for the preferred option. On the motion of Councillor A Graves, duly seconded and in accordance with Standing Order number 18.1, a recorded vote was requested and taken as follows: For the motion: Councillors Abbott, Adams, Barnes, Benfield, Bent, Bradley, Bromley, Brown, Chambers, Clarke, Cliff, Elsdon, Gates, Graves, Greenhalgh, Hallett, Harper, Harvey, Hatfield, Hill, Hodgson, Hunter, Isherwood, Lawson, Mabbott, Mathews, Muizelaar, Oxberry, Parkin, Price, R Reaney, S Reaney, Redfern, Reed, M Smith, R Smith, Somerville, Whitbread and Wood. Against the motion: Councillors Bull, Burfoot, Dale, Ford, Fordham, George, Gourlay, Hart, Hobson, Maginnis, Major, Snowdon, Sutton, Turrell, and Wheelton. Abstentions: Councillors Hatchett, Kinsella, Millward and Monkman. RESOLVED to: 1) Note Government intentions for the requirement of LGR across two-tier areas of local government in England; 2) Note the Government's
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.