Archive for Month: October 2020
-
Local Government Reform
20th October 2020So last week was the inaugural meeting of Basildon Council’s new ‘Local Government Reorganisation and Transition Committee’, the presumptuously-named full-blown service committee that the Labour-led Administration have set up to ‘consider’ the issue of Local Government Reform (LGR). To be fair, the Government is preparing a White Paper on what some would argue is a…
-
Essex entering Tier 2 (Covid High Alert)
15th October 2020Following on from yesterday’s widely-reported decision by Essex County Council to apply to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to pre-emptively place Essex under the Tier 2 (High alert) Covid-19 restrictions, the Health Secretary has this morning confirmed in the House of Commons that, on reviewing the case presented by the County…
-
Essex Tier 2 Request
13th October 2020As you will all be aware, the Prime Minister has announced a new three-tier system of local lockdown rules, to help slow the spread of Covid-19. Essex is, for the time being, at the ‘Medium’ (Tier 1) alert level, which means that we here in Billericay and the rest of the Borough of Basildon will…