James Painter's 75-home outline planning application

In November 2025, Mr James Painter lodged an outline planning application for 75-homes on land he owns, north-east of Drove road

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.

The Science and Technology Facility Council’s Chilbolton Observatory has lodged an objection to the planned 75-home development. It says that “As drawn, the proposals do give the Observatory operators serious concerns and represent a threat to the ongoing viability of the site.”

As the Parish Council announced last Saturday, there is at the moment a range of traffic survey activity being undertaken in the Village.

The intention is to provide a fact-based challenge to some of the assertions made about traffic in the 75-home planning application.

The case of the “stolen” sign which we reported on this morning has quickly been resolved.

chilbolton.news was contacted by a Village resident who revealed that he had been responsible for its removal.

In a new twist in the story of James Painter’s 75-home planning application, Cherish Chilbolton discovered on Wednesday that a sign protesting the development had been stolen.