Motion on Notice from Councillor Chapelard
Full council, 14 October 2026: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 18, Against 15, 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 (18)
- Andrew Wallace (Liberal Democrats)
- Ash Shukla (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Corinna Keefe (Liberal Democrats)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Standing (Liberal Democrats)
- Jamie Johnson (Liberal Democrats)
- Kimberley Johnson (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Ellis (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Munday (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Brice (Liberal Democrats)
- Matt Lowe (Liberal Democrats)
- Pamela Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Ukonu Obasi (Liberal Democrats)
- H. Wormington (not matched to a member)
Against (15)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Thomas Mobbs (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Gavin Barrass (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Davidson (Liberal Democrats)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
Abstained (2)
- Astra Birch (Liberal Democrats)
- Richard Brown (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
rd eventually, however it was argued as most suitably brought forward in line with LGR at a time when there was more information and certainty. A recorded vote was requested. The vote was as follows: Members who voted for the motion: Cllrs Chapelard, Ellis, Wilkinson, Hall, R. Wormington, Keefe, Lowe, Brice, K. Johnson , J. Johnson, Kent, Munday, Obasi, Patterson, Shukla, Standing, Wallace, H. Wormington (18) Members who voted against the motion: Cllrs Barrass, Davidson, Osborne, Darrah, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Mobbs, Pound, Hill, Sharratt, Sankey, Neville, Hayward, Palmer (15) Members who abstained from voting: Cllrs Brown, Birch (2) RESOLVED – The Motion was carried.
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