Community Development Committee

Chairman: Vacant Vice Chair: Mr Neil Connor Secretary: Mr Peter Collis

Following the Parish Council Meeting on 07/04/2025 a new Committee has been created called the Community Development Committee (CDC) which will take forward the Community Housing Project. The Strategy Working Group will no longer be meeting to consider the Community Housing Project. CDC Terms of Reference (v3.2 approved 08/07/2025)

The CDC may include members who are not Parish Councillors. If you are interested in becoming a member of the CDC then please contact the Clerk by email Chilbolton.Clerk@hotmail.co.uk giving details of the skills and/or experience you will bring to the committee.

Blank CDC Site Selection document for information only

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Confirmation of decisions regarding CDC made at the CPC meeting held on 22 August

We have received a letter from James Painter outlining his proposal to submit a planning application for 25 homes at the Drove Road site and expressing the desire to continue to work with the Parish Council on this to identify and achieve the Community’s needs. A copy of the letter is on the website.2. CPC welcomes clarity on James’ plans. Following the discussion, we will acknowledge the letter and indicate how we intend to proceed. We are happy to work collaboratively with the Painter family on this but will have a number of key requirements which must be included if the proposal is to be able to claim village support (referred to in the CPC minutes as red lines). It will also make clear that the community does not support a development of more than 25 homes on this site (in line with our draft response to the TVBC Local Plan Reg 18 consultation).
3. CDC will consider the proposal as one of the options alongside the three other sites it is currently evaluating in order to make a recommendation of one or two options to the Parish Council. If further sites of interest emerge during the process, these will also be subject to the same structured analysis. CDC’s Terms of Reference v4.2 are under discussion, and will be presented to an extraordinary council meeting for adoption. All conversations with landowners or other third parties are to be documented.

4. Conversations with landowners will proceed once TVBC has been approached to confirm their requirements for each site to comply with COM9 of the local plan which allows for housing outside the settlement boundary, only if it can demonstrate that the community has been fully involved and supports it. COM9 also guarantees the provision of affordable housing as part of the development. CDC will use the advice obtained from TVBC to refine the “red lines” for discussion with all landowners.

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Pre-application for Community Housing Project

Please see below the response from TVBC regarding the pre-application advice request for the construction of 25 dwellings on Land Northeast of Drove Road (25-00258-PREAPN)

Response from TVBC Planning (Link to view the letter)

Attachments – Other consultations please click on each response document to view

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STRATEGY WORKING GROUP – Chair Cllr Tony Ewer

The Strategy Working Group was dissolved at the Parish Council AGM on 19th May 2025

Previous Documents are below:

Terms of Reference – Agreed at the Annual Parish Council meeting held on 15/5/23

Reporting, transparency and accountability in the governance process:— The Strategy Working Group regularly reports to the Parish Council, providing updates on its activities, progress towards objectives, and any recommendations. These reports can be found within the Parish Council minutes.

Community Housing Project Update 18th December 2024

Community Housing Project Presentation Slides 5th December 2024 (attached here)

Community Housing Project Questions & Answers from Public Meeting 5th December 2024

Monthly Update: 01 March 2025 (extract from the magazine)

Strategy Group Minutes can be found here: SWG Minutes

Other Documents can be accessed by clicking on the name of the document:

Evaluation of SHEELA’s

SWG Visit to Scandi-Hus

Approved Chilbolton Vision

CPC statement presented 22/02/2025 re pre-application

Design, Access and Planning document submitted for pre-planning advice to TVBC Planning on 7^th April 2025

Proposed Site Layout submitted with the pre-planning advice document on 7^th April 2025