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Parish Councillor vacancy
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There is currently a vacancy on Chilworth Parish Council. Why not consider serving your community by becoming a councillor? If you think you have the required qualities then why not put yourself forward? You can find out more (including relevant contacts) by reading this very short description of the role. The Parish Council’s web pages are here.
Update – Emergency Planning
The Parish Council wishes to share with residents a couple of updates sent by Hampshire County Council’s Head of Emergency Planning & Resilience to the local community plan holder (the chairman of the PC).
The first is a general update which you may read by clicking here.
The second will be of interest to anyone whose property is in danger of groundwater flooding (hopefully not too many at Chilworth). You may read it by clicking here.
Southampton Golf Centre
The running of Southampton golf centre will return to the city council 
from 1 April 2021 after a mutual agreement to release the current operators Mytime Active from their contract on 31 March 2021. Continue reading
Fly-tipper fined
It’s pleasing to hear that TVBC managed to identify and successfully prosecute one of the people responsible for the recent spate of fly-tipping in Roman Road. See this article for details. We should all follow the advice in the final paragraph, viz. to check the licence credentials of any waste-carriers with whom we contract. If we turn a blind eye, we ourselves become part of the fly-tipping problem even though we probably will not be prosecuted.
Bin Days
If you live in Chilworth, your normal (brown) bin day would be this Wednesday, 23rd December. As it’s Christmas week, Chilworth’s bin day has been brought forward one day, to Tuesday, 22nd December. Continue reading
Updates from our MP
Whenever we receive updates from our MP, the Rt Hon Caroline Nokes, they will be made available on her page on this site.
Nearby Events – Dec 2020
This monthly digest of upcoming events in our region was in abeyance for a while – for obvious reasons – but things are starting to happen again (including a lot more online events of interest). If you know of any others that you think are worth including, please send details to the Editor.
Fireworks!
It’s that time of year again (or should that read “it’s one of those times of year again”?) Times when for night after night, the peace is shattered by loud bangs at any and all hours, and many pets are reduced to trembling bags of nerves. A lady by the name of Julie Doorne set up a Change.org petition to get the laws on the sale and use of fireworks updated. To date, her petition has collected over 660,000 signatures, well on the way to the next target of one million. Continue reading
Nearby Events – Nov 2020
This monthly digest of upcoming events in our region was in abeyance for a while – for obvious reasons – but things are starting to happen again (including a lot more online events of interest). If you know of any others that you think are worth including, please send details to the Editor.
A Cautionary Tale
This may particularly interest those of around my age, of whom I believe there are quite a few in Chilworth. DVLA have not been sending out reminders about ten-year renewals of photos on driving licences nor, it seems, reminders about the need to renew at 70. Continue reading