Article by Martin Webber at West Kent Radio.
Tonbridge is to get its own Town Council if most voters in the Tonbridge town area want one.
Since 1974, Tonbridge has been the only part of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough council area without a more local Town or Parish Council.
The Conservative leader of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, Matt Boughton, said on Monday that – up to now – he has had mixed feelings over whether a Tonbridge Town Council should be set up, as he was concerned about the cost.
But now Matt Boughton has said that the Labour government decision’s to reorganise local government had created – what he called – a “democratic deficit” and he wanted the electorate of the town to decide the Town Council issue.
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