News: Parish Council schedules meeting on the 75-home development
Chilbolton Parish Council has scheduled an Extraordinary Meeting on Saturday 3 Jan 2026 at 10am in the Village Hall. This will be a formal Parish Council meeting whose main business is to agree the CPC response to the proposed 75-home development.
CPC’s website includes a draft of the Parish Council’s response. The meeting will include an opportunity for “residents to give their views and question the committee on the agenda, or raise issues for future consideration at the discretion of the Chairman.”
The draft document is the most extensive and detailed response the Parish Council has made to a planning application. Running to 78 pages, including nine annexes, it objects to the proposed development because:
- The development is contrary to Chilbolton’s Neighbourhood Development Plan: it is outside the Settlement Area, it’s for more than the 20 dwellings in the CNDP and it fails to comply with its parking requirements
- It is not sustainable because it is over-development, it lacks feasible transport options and it doesn’t address “critically inadequate infrastructure”. Also the “adverse impacts” associated with it outweigh any benefits
The covering letter amounts to 12 pages, while the nine annexes include significant pieces of work on:
- Transport, including the traffic survey commissioned by Chilbolton Parish Council, the safety perception survey and the road safety hotspot analysis. It includes pictures illustrating some of the most dangerous roads and junctions
- Housing needs, mix and delivery
- Landscape, and the effect on Chilbolton’s rural setting and biodiversity
- Flood risk, drainage and utilities infrastructure
Two days after the Extraordinary Meeting, the next scheduled meeting of the Parish Council will be on Monday 5 Jan 2026 at 6pm in the Village Hall.