DISTRICT council officers have gone on the defensive amid accusations regarding an exhibition about housing developments at Liphook's Millennium Centre last month. Bramshott and Liphook parish councillors dismissed the district council's consultation process as a "disaster" and "totally flawed", claiming its results could not be trusted. The damning verdict came at the parish council's own planning meeting last week when a controversial scheme to build 100 homes at Chiltley Farm was backed. But district council leader Ferris Cowper said this week: "We held a public consultation event in Liphook to help the council prepare a local interim planning statement. "The idea of the statement is to try to ensure that new housing for the parish is located in the least damaging and disruptive parts of Bramshott and Liphook." For full story, see this week's Liphook Herald.