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Chilbolton Parish Council has changed the agenda for this evening’s meeting (5 Jan 2026). The Responsible Financial Officer, Cllr David Hall, is recovering from injuries sustained over the holiday period and is unable to present budgetary and financial matters.

As a result, tonight’s meeting at 6pm in the Village Hall will agree CPC’s response to the 75-home planning application, review new planning applications and discuss the process by which a new Parish Councillor will be co-opted. All other business will be deferred to a meeting on Monday 12 Jan 2026 at 6pm in the Village Hall.

At a briskly-run meeting today, Chilbolton Parish Council agreed amendments to their draft response to James Painter’s proposed 75-home development. As an Extraordinary Meeting of CPC, this was a “meeting held in public”, rather than a “public meeting”, nonetheless villagers were invited to have their say, after Councillors had made their decisions.

We’ve been alerted to the possibility that some residents may not know about the Parish Council’s Extraordinary Meeting on Saturday. It’s at 10am in the Village Hall, and the main item on the agenda is for the Parish Council to agree their response to James Painter’s 75-home planning application.

You can read the full draft response and there will be an agenda item for public questions and comment at the meeting. There is a brief summary here. chilbolton.news will be at the meeting and will report on it later on Saturday.

As Chilbolton Parish Council prepares to agree its response to James Painter’s proposal to build 75 homes, we look at what residents have been commenting on in their responses.

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.