Changes to the Planning Committee
Full council, 14 October 2026: a named vote on the motion.
For 23, Against 10, 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 (23)
- Andrew Wallace (Liberal Democrats)
- Ash Shukla (Liberal Democrats)
- Ben Chapelard (Liberal Democrats)
- Christopher Hall (Liberal Democrats)
- Corinna Keefe (Liberal Democrats)
- David Osborne (Liberal Democrats)
- Don Kent (Liberal Democrats)
- Gavin Barrass (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugh Patterson (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Standing (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)
- Richard Brown (Liberal Democrats)
- Rob Wormington (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Davidson (Liberal Democrats)
- Ukonu Obasi (Liberal Democrats)
- Hugo Pound (Labour)
- Jayne Sharratt (Labour)
- H. Wormington (not matched to a member)
Against (10)
- Andy Fairweather (Conservative)
- David Knight (Conservative)
- Ms Beverley Palmer (Conservative)
- Thomas Mobbs (Conservative)
- Tom Dawlings (Conservative)
- Ellen Neville (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- Matthew Sankey (Tunbridge Wells Alliance)
- David Hayward (Independents for Tunbridge Wells)
- Dianne Hill (Labour)
- Jamie Johnson (Liberal Democrats)
Abstained (2)
- Lynne Darrah (Conservative)
- Astra Birch (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
ged the concerns and challenges raised. - Members were encouraged to engage with the Local Plan review process and submit comments and views. A recorded vote was requested. The votes were as follows: Members who voted for the motion: Cllrs Chapelard, Ellis, Wilkinson, Hall, R. Wormington, Keefe, Lowe, Barrass, Brice, Brown, Davidson, K. Johnson, Kent, Munday, Obasi, Osborne, Patterson, Shukla, Standing, Wallace, H. Wormington, Pound, Sharratt (23) Members who voted against the motion: Cllrs J. Johnson, Dawlings, Fairweather, Knight, Mobbs, Hill, Sankey, Neville, Hayward, Palmer (10) Members who abstained from voting: Cllrs Darrah, Birch (2) RESOLVED – 1. That Full Council notes the contents of this report and the implementation procedure as outlined within it, and agrees to the chang
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.