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The work to establish Chilbolton Community Land Trust (CCLT) is underway. Community Land Trusts are an international phenomenon, that started in the United States. Here in the UK there are various ways of incorporating one, but the SWG have indicated that “CLT will be a charity (but regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, rather than the Charities Commission)”. This suggests that CCLT will be what is known as a Charitable Community Benefit Society (CCBS).

There was much to applaud at last Monday’s Parish Council meeting. Disaster had been averted with the “faulty” planning pre-application being “paused”. The Strategy Working Group has been tasked with rewriting it: it will cover only the 25 properties, located at the southern end of the plot near Eastman’s Field. When it’s finished villagers will be able to see it.

Social factors and economic policy have driven higher demand for home ownership and higher house prices. Affordable housing provides homes at lower cost for people whose income won’t stretch to local market rates. How that is done in the UK, though, is complex.

“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.