Budget 2022/23 and Medium Term Financial Strategy Update
Full council, 23 February 2022: a named vote on the motion.
For 20, Against 5, Abstained 20.
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 (20)
- Alan McDermott (Conservative)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Bob Backhouse (Conservative)
- Chris Woodward (Conservative)
- Christian Atwood (Conservative)
- David Scott (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- James Scholes (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Joe Simmons (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Paul Roberts (Conservative)
- Sarah Hamilton (Conservative)
- Seán Holden (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Victoria White (Conservative)
- Dr Hall (not matched to a member)
Against (5)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Luke Everitt (Labour)
Abstained (20)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Marguerita Morton (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Trevor Poile (Liberal Democrats)
- Wendy Fitzsimmons (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Hickey (Independent)
- James Rands (Independent)
- Matthew Bailey (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- Lucy Willis (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
From the minutes
failed to address all these issues. · Increase parking charges would not be well received with residents. The Mayor took a recorded vote on the motion in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.7. Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Allen, Atwood, Backhouse, Barrington-King, Bland, Dawlings, Fairweather, Goodship, Dr Hall, Hamilton, Holden, March, McDermott, Ms Palmer, Roberts, Scholes, Scott, Simmons, White and Woodward. (20) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Britcher-Allan, Everitt, Hill, Lewis and Pound. (5) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Atkins, Bailey, Chapelard, Ellis, Fitzsimmons, C. Hall, Hayward, Hickey, Knight, Lidstone, Morton, Patterson, Poile, Pope, Rands, Rutland, Sankey, Warne, Willis and Wormington. (20) RESOLVED – 1. That the changes to the base budget along with the assumptions and approach set out throughout the report be noted; 2. That the r
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.