Budget & MTFS 2025-26
Full council, 26 February 2025: a named vote on the motion.
For 21, Against 14, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Liberal Democrats. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (21)
- Adrian Pitts (Liberal Democrats)
- Astra Birch (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Brendon Le Page (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Corinna Keefe (Liberal Democrats)
- Courtney Souper (Liberal Democrats)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Joe Opara (Liberal Democrats)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Brice (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Lowe (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Tara Matthews (Liberal Democrats)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Against (14)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Christian Robert Atwood (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Somers (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Thomas Mobbs (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Abstained (1)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
From the minutes
are. · Suggested that Labour group members might want to advocate for this issue at the national level. The Mayoress took a recorded vote on the motion in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.7. Members who voted for the motion: Councillor Birch, Brice, Chapelard, Ellis, Hall, Keefe, Kent, Le Page, Lidstone, Lowe, Matthews, Munday, Opara, Osborne, Patterson, Pitts, Rutland, Souper, Warne, Wilkinson and Wormington. (21) Members who voted against the motion: Councillor Atwood, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Hayward, Hill, Jones, Knight, Mobbs, Neville, Ms Palmer, Pound, Sharratt, and Somers. (14) Members who abstained from Voting: Councillor Britcher-Allan (1)
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.