*Budget 2026-27 and Medium Term Financial Strategy
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 21, Against 12, Abstained 0.
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)
- Hugh Patterson (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)
- Richard Brown (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Davidson (Liberal Democrats)
- Ukonu Obasi (Liberal Democrats)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
Against (12)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Christian Robert Atwood (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Somers (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (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)
From the minutes
(Waste, Leisure Centres etc.) and the RVP. - There was agreement that more could be done on women's safety. The Mayor took a recorded vote on the motion in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 15.7 Members who voted for the motion: Councillors: Chapelard, Ellis, Wilkinson, Rutland, Hall, Wormington, Lowe, Birch, Brice, Brown, Davidson, Keefe, Le Page, Munday, Obasi, Patterson, Pitts, Souper, Neville, Sankey, Osborne (21). Members who voted against the motion: Councillors: Atwood, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Somers, Britcher-Allan, Hill, Jones, Pound, Sharratt, Hayward (12) Members who abstained from voting:0 RESOLVED: That Full Council agrees: 1. That Council considers the changes to the base budget along with the assumptions and approach detailed through
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