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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.

Battle lines were drawn yesterday evening as Chilbolton Parish Council prepared a plan for responding to James Painter’s planning application for a 75-home development.