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Cllr Sue Larcombe this morning confirmed that she has managed to extend the final date for submissions on James Painter’s proposed 75-home development on land near Drove Road.

The original deadline was 4 Dec 2025 for the Parish Council and 12 Dec 2025 for residents. This has now been extended to 12 Jan 2026. This gives the Parish Council another 39 days in which they can refine their comments. Residents have until the “determination deadline”, 11 Feb 2026, to respond.

Fifty five residents packed into a chilly Village Hall today to hear the Parish Council’s first meeting and discussion on James Painter’s proposed 75-home development.

Most people were looking for information and there was a shared desire to put in the best responses to TVBC planners.

New action group “Cherish Chilbolton” has dropped leaflets in every letterbox in the Village.

Headed “No to the Painter Family over-development of Chilbolton”, the leaflet “seeks to point out the harm that a development of this scale will do to our cherished village.”

Chilbolton’s Community Development Committee have met for the first time in three months. They re-elected Cllr David Hall as Chair. They discussed James Painter’s 75-home plan and their own investigations into a 25-home development.

Chilbolton Parish Council has set the dates for three public meetings to discuss James Painter’s outline planning proposal for 75 homes in the Village.

The first meeting will be held at 10am on Saturday 22 November in the Village Hall.

Leaflets advertising the meetings will be circulated to all homes in Chilbolton.