Draft Strategic Plan
Full council, 26 February 2025: a named vote on the motion.
For 15, Against 19, Abstained 3.
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 (15)
- 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)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Against (19)
- 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)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Jamie Johnson (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)
Abstained (3)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Joe Opara (Liberal Democrats)
- Nancy Warne (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
From the minutes
and scrutiny, suggesting that those meetings would have been the appropriate time for debate. · Therefore it was seen that the amendment was not necessary Councillor Pound requested a recorded vote. Members who voted for the motion: Councillors Atwood, Britcher-Allan, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Hayward, Hill, Jones, Knight, Mobbs, Neville, Ms Palmer, Pound, Sharratt, Somers (15) Members who voted against the motion: Councillors Birch, Brice, Chapelard, Ellis, Hall, Johnson, Keefe, Kent, Le Page, Lidstone, Lowe, Matthews, Munday, Patterson, Pitts, Rutland, Souper, Wilkinson and Wormington (19) Members who abstained from voting: Councillors Opara, Osborne and Warne (3) MOTION FALLS Councillor Jones proposed, Amendment 2 and Councillor Somers seconded, the amendment. That Full Council agrees the draft Strategic P
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