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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.

It has been an eventful year for our Village, and a busy one for chilbolton.news. We’ve done our best to report on and explain what has been happening.