Response to the Inspectors Initial Findings letter on the Local Plan
Full council, 13 December 2023: a named vote on the motion.
For 33, Against 6, Abstained 3.
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 (33)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Brendon Le Page (Liberal Democrats)
- Gavin Barrass (Liberal Democrats)
- Joe Opara (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Brice (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Wendy Fitzsimmons (Liberal Democrats)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- Godfrey Bland (Conservative)
- Harry Allen (Conservative)
- Jane March (Conservative)
- Lance Goodship (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Paul Barrington-King (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Alison Webster (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nicholas Pope (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Paul Curry (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Siobhan O'Connell (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Steve McMillan (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Shadi Rogers (Labour)
- Britcher-Alan (not matched to a member)
- Osbornes (not matched to a member)
Against (6)
- Raymond Moon (Independent)
- Rodney Atkins (Independent)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Suzanne Wakeman (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Jamie Johnson (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (3)
- Alain Lewis (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- John Francis (Labour)
From the minutes
g with travel infrastructure. · Councillors are being asked to make decisions over the local plan and make decisions on areas where they have no overall control such as schools, roads, transport etc. Members who voted for the Motion: Councillors Allen, Barrington-King, Barrass, Bland, Brice, Britcher-Alan, Chapelard, Curry Dawlings, Ellis, Fairweather, Fitzsimmons, Goodship, Knight, Le Page, Lidstone, McMillan, March, Munday, Neville, O'Connell, Osbornes, Opara, Palmer, Pope, Pound, Rogers, Rutland, Sankey, Sharratt, Webster, Wilkinson, Wormington (33) Members who voted against the Motion: Councillors: Atkins, Hall, Hayward, Johnson, Moon and Wakeman. (6) Members who abstained from voting: Councillor Francis, Hill, and Lewis (3) Councillor Pound Requested a recorded vote
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.