Electoral Review: Council Size
Full council, 6 October 2021: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 24, Against 12, Abstained 6.
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 (24)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Bill Hills (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Patrick Thomson (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Seán Holden (Conservative)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Poile (Liberal Democrats)
- Wendy Fitzsimmons (Liberal Democrats)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Dr Hall (not matched to a member)
- Matthew Bailey (not matched to a member)
Against (12)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
- Lucy Willis (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Abstained (6)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Andrew Hickey (Independent)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
From the minutes
. (3) AMENDMENT NOT CARRIED Debate returned to the original motion (keeping the number of members at 48): · No further comments. The Mayor took a recorded vote on the motion. Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Atkins, Atwood, Backhouse, Bailey, Barrington-King, Chapelard, Fairweather, Fitzsimmons, C. Hall, Dr Hall, B. Hills, Holden, Lewis, Lidstone, Ms Palmer, Patterson, Poile, Pope, Rands, Rutland, Scholes, Simmons, Thomson and Wormington. (24) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Allen, Bland, Dawlings, Everitt, Goodship, Hamilton, D. Hill, McDermott, Pound, Scott, Willis and Woodward. (12) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Britcher-Allan, Hayward, Hickey, Knight, March and Warne. (6) RESOLVED – 1. That the Council Size Submission (the Submission) at appendix A be approved and submitted to the Local Government Boundary Commiss
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.