Council Tax 2025-26
Full council, 26 February 2025: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 34, Against 0, 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 (34)
- 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)
- Justine Rutland (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Lowe (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Peter Lidstone (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Tara Matthews (Liberal Democrats)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Christian Robert Atwood (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Somers (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Martin (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Thomas Mobbs (Conservative)
From the minutes
Moved, and Councillor Chapelard Seconded, the recommendations set out in the report. The report was taken as read. The Mayoress took a recorded vote on the motion in accordance with Cabinet Rule 15.7 Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Atwood, Birch, Martin, Britcher-Allan, Chapelard, Darrah, Dawlings, Ellis, Fairweather, Hall, Hayward, Hill, Jones, Keefe, Kent, Knight, Le Page, Lidstone, Lowe, Matthews, Munday, Neville, Osborne, Ms Palmer, Patterson, Pitts, Pound, Rutland, Sharratt, Somers, Souper, Warne, Wilkinson and Wormington. (34) Members who voted against the motion: (0) Members who abstained from Voting: Councillor Mobbs (1) MOTION CARRIED RESOLVED – 1. That Council approve the Council Tax for 2025/26 as set out in the resolution in Appendix A.
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.