Council Tax 2026-27
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 29, Against 4, 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 (29)
- 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)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- Christian Robert Atwood (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- David Somers (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
Against (4)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
From the minutes
and Councillor Chapelard seconded the recommendations set out in the report. The report was taken as read. 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, Atwood, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Somers, Sharratt, Neville, Sankey, Hayward, Osborne (29) Members who voted against the motions: Councillors: Britcher-Allan, Hill, Jones, Pound (4). Members who abstained from voting: 0 RESOLVED: That Full Council Agrees: 1. That Council approves the Council Tax for 2026-27 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.