Archive for Month: July 2017
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The Coalition Strikes Back: Revenge of the Class War Politicians
31st July 2017The day we knew was coming finally arrived last Thursday at the Policy & Resources Committee of Basildon Council. Having ousted the Conservative Administration in May, we knew it was only a matter of time before the new Labour-led coalition now running Basildon Council came after the people of Billericay. Billericay residents are guilty of…
- "Echo" (newspaper)
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Billericay (town)
- Billericay Swimming Pool
- Billericay Town Council
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Ab Ind, Burstead)
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW & Leader of Basildon Council)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- DADDS, Cllr David, JP (Con, Billericay East & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- Felmores Bail Hostel
- Independent Group (Smithites)
- Labour Party
- Laindon (town)
- Pitsea Regeneration
- Policy & Resources Committee
- South Green (village)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- Vange (ward)
- Wickford (town)
- Wickford Independents
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The inaugural meeting of the Regeneration & Environment Cttee
13th July 2017Last night was the first meeting of the new Regeneration & Environment Committee – one of the four new service committees brought in by the Labour-led Coalition under their new Committee System, which replaced the Leader and Cabinet model. It is chaired by Cllr Alan Ball (WI, Wickford Castledon). The meeting was an embarrassing farce…
- BALL, Alan (fmr. Wickford Ind cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Basildon Town Centre
- Billericay (town)
- BROWNE, Lorraine (fmr Basildon Council officer)
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW & Leader of Basildon Council)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Essex County Council
- Gypsies & Trevellers
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- Local Highways Panel
- McGURRAN, Cllr Aidan (Lab, Vange)
- Pitsea Regeneration
- Regeneration & Environment Committee
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- Wickford (town)
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Illegal Encampments
13th July 2017The Labour-led coalition are giving up on supporting Basildon residents when it comes to illegal encampments that pitch up in Basildon creating a trail of chaos, misery and devastation in their wake and leaving residents to foot the clean-up bill. On two separate occasions now the Coalition has turned its back on residents, deciding not…