Motion on notice from Councillor Chapelard
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 34, Against 0, 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.
Only one side of this vote could be read from the minutes. The others may be recorded in a form that couldn't be read, or not at all.
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Alex Britcher-Allan (Labour)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- Victoria Taylor Jones (Labour)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
From the minutes
on which would be used to put in place changes. - South East Water were due to attend Overview and Scrutiny in January 2026 but subsequently cancelled. Councillor Chapelard requested a recorded vote: Members who voted for the motion: Councillors: Chapelard, Ellis, Wilkinson, Rutland, Hall, Wormington, Lowe, Birch, Brice, Brown, Davidson, Keefe, Le Page, Munday, Obasi, Opara, Patterson, Pitts, Souper, Atwood, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Somers, Britcher-Allan, Hill, Jones, Pound, Sharratt, Neville, Sankey, Hayward, Osborne (34). Members who voted against the motion: 0 Members who abstained from voting: 0 RESOLVED: Motion Carried.
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