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Welcome to the Chilham Parish Council website. We hope you will learn something useful about what we are doing to improve the quality of life in our parish. |
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We recognise that most people in the parish dont really understand what we do, so this website and the quarterly newsletters printed in the Parish News is our attempt to keep you better informed so that together we can make the parish of Chilham an even better place to live in.. |
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We welcome feedback, good or bad, so please use the how are we doing page to let us have your views on the website or, for that matter, any issue that you think the parish council should be dealing with. |
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If we dont know what is concerning you then we cant help to do anything about it. |
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STOP PRESS - PLANS FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RE CHILHAM SQUARE ENDORSED
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At its May meeting the parish council endorsed plans by Chilhams Future Delivery Board that the next phase in their project would be a community engagement exercise involving experts in the field of urban design and community consultation to establish the basic principles and introduce the concepts of shared space. |
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With this expert input we hope the key stakeholders can engage with each other to agree a specific scheme that achieves the aims of the project to revitalise our community square. |
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STOP PRESS - CHILHAM IN THE NEWS AS BBC FILM EMMA IN THE SQUARE |
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Chilham village square is the location for Highbury village in a new four part adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma for BBC1. |
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The series stars Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon, Tamsin Greig, Robert Bathurst and Jodhi May. It will be broadcast on BBC One in the autumn. |
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Check out the BBC Kent website for news of what happened in the Square including Parish Councillor Alistair Ralphs daily 'spy in the square' report. |
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KMFM were first on the scene reporting on the exciting events in the Square - check out their report. |
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The BBC filmed in Chilham Square and adjoining roads from Tuesday 14th April until Saturday 18th April from 0800hrs to 1900hrs approximately every day. In order to minimise any potential disruption the dates have been selected to coincide with the Easter school holiday. |
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They used as much local resource as possible from stables to the village hall / school and got the local community involved from an interest and educational aspect if they so wished. It is expected that the filming will not only give a short term ‘boost’ to the local economy but will also have longer term benefits as a result of the ensuing publicity. They have also agreed a £500 donation to the Parish Council. |
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STOP PRESS - DOWNLAND HOUSING PLANNING APPLICATION TO EXTEND SHRIMPTON CLOSE IS SUCCESSFUL |
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Ashford Borough Council have granted Downland Housing planning permission to develop 11 further dwellings on Shrimpton Close to extend the Local Needs Housing in the parish of Chilham. A meeting was held with local residents on 15th April in the Methodist Church, OWL to discuss contractors proposals. Work is expected to start in June and run for 40 weeks. Check out the planning committee section of the what we are doing page for more details of their plans |
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STOP PRESS - TRAFFIC AND PARKING CONTROL MEASURES AROUND CHILHAM SQUARE - DRAFT REPORT PRODUCED |
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Kent Highways Services (KHS) presented a draft report to parish councillors at a special council meeting on 26th March at 730pm in Chilham Village Hall. The parish council supported the report with minor qualifications and made a formal response. The final report will be considered by KHS and if approved there will be full public consultation before any scheme is implemented. The minutes can be viewed by selecting Class4 on the our documents page. |
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We have also produced a short paper Enhancing Chilham Square - the story so far to explain the background, current status and key issues affecting the initiative to enhance the square and its environs. |
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STOP PRESS -CLEAN KENT TEAM CLEAR OVERGROWN VERGE IN THE AVENUE |
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At 9am on Friday 27th March The Clean Kent team cleared the overgrown verge (up to 2ft in places) from Felborough Close to the junction with A252. This parish council initiative was arranged by KCC Community Warden Marc Sluder. |
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Here they are at work. See the difference they have made ... the pathway is now at its full width and much safer for pedestrians. |
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STOP PRESS - RURAL OLDER PERSONS HOUSING PROJECT |
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The parish council is participating in a project instigated by ABC to explore the need for older peoples accommodation in rural areas. |
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Check out the planning committee section of the what we are doing page for more details of their plans |
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STOP PRESS - ABC DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR CHILHAM - 2ND COMMUNITY WORKSHOP |
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20 members of the public responded to adverts in local press, noticeboards, Parish News and the parish council website to attend a workshop on Thursday 15th January in Chilham Village Hall. |
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Its purpose was to collect local views on the site selection process carried out by the planning team at Ashford Borough Council as part of the Local Development Framework that may result in building an unofficial estimate of 30 or more homes in Chilham between now and 2021. |
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Several sites in and around Chilham village had been considered for residential and employment development. The planning team gave their views on each of the sites explaining what might be possible together with the issues that would need to be resolved and asked for views from the locals attending. |
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Whilst there was no firm consensus on preference, sites at the Old Sawmills, Branch Road, Bagham Lane (near the old telephone exchange) and Mountain Street appeared to have more potential than the others although all of these had serious issues that would need to be resolved. |
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The next step is for the ABC planning team to collate the output from this workship with that from similar workshops in other parishes and feed this into further planning that will result in a detailed proposal for developing 170 homes across 8 rural parishes between now and 2021. |
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These plans will be open to public consultation later in the year. |
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