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The Northern Area Planning Committee will be discussing the proposed Test Valley Farm development tomorrow. The meeting starts at 5:30pm. Test Valley Farm is second on the agenda.

Please note that the venue is Upper Guildhall, High Street, Andover NOT Beech House

“This Hampshire country pub might just have the best burgers in the county”.

An article in the Andover Advertiser and the Hampshire Chronicle gives our local pub, the Abbots Mitre, a four and a half star rating.

The Chilbolton Parish Council meeting last night was a tense affair marked by disagreements between councillors, a vote, and sharp exchanges between the Chair and villagers who had attended the meeting. At the heart of the disagreements was the governance of its plans to build 25 new homes in the village.

Test Valley Borough Council planning officer Emma Jones has recommended that the Northern Area Planning Committee approve the development of five houses at Test Valley Farm in Chilbolton. The controversial planning application will be discussed at the TVBC planning committee meeting on 13 Mar 2025.

On noticeboards around the village and in everyone’s postbox, it appeared without warning - a flyer calling all villagers to attend the Parish Council’s “informal meeting” on 22 Feb 2025.