Motion on Notice from Councillor Pound
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 14, Against 17, Abstained 2.
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 (14)
- 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)
Against (17)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ukonu Obasi (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (2)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Davidson (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
ed on trees but this wasn't the purpose of the motion. There was a need for the Council to be very careful with its finances and about the choices it made. Councillor Pound requested a recorded vote: Members who voted for the motion: Councillors: Atwood, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Somers, Britcher-Allan, Hill, Jones, Pound, Sharratt, Neville, Sankey, Hayward (14). Members who voted against the motion: Councillors: Chapelard, Ellis, Wilkinson, Rutland, Hall, Wormington, Lowe, Birch, Brice, Brown, Keefe, Le Page, Munday, Obasi, Patterson, Pitts, Souper (17). Members who abstained from voting: Councillors: Davidson, Osborne (2) RESOLVED: Motion Failed.
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.