Category: Council Tax
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Waste Changes
31st October 2016Last week, Basildon Borough Council launched an online survey on changes to its waste and recycling services and will remain open until midnight on Sunday 27th November 2016. Many of you will shortly be receiving a letter from the Council, if you haven’t already, encouraging you to have your say. This is not just an…
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My speech on the 2016 Basildon Budget
22nd February 2016Unfortunately, due to the guillotine being reached, I was unable to deliver my backbench speech on the 2016 Budget for the Borough of Basildon but below is the full text of the speech I would have given: I cannot say I rise to greet this budget with the same enthusiasm I have previous budgets because –…
- Billericay East (ward)
- Budget
- Business Rates
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Council Tax
- Deficit
- Dept for Work & Pensions
- Government
- Hannakins Farm
- Income Tax
- Kent View Road
- Labour Party
- Markhams Chase
- OSBORNE, Rt Hon George, CH (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- SULLIVAN, Cllr Stuart (Con, Billericay East)
- Triangle shops
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Basildon Borough Budget 2016
22nd February 2016Apologies that is has taken me over a week to pen this blog about the budget-setting meeting of Full Council on Thursday 11th February but I have had a lot on. The meeting was preceded by an extraordinary meeting of the Council to vote on a proposal from the Deputy Mayor – Cllr Danny Lawrence…
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- ARNOLD, Amanda (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE)
- BAGGOTT, Cllr Andrew (Con, Burstead)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Basildon Heritage & Museum Group
- Basildon Sporting Village
- Billericay East (ward)
- Billericay Town Council
- BINGHAM, Stuart (snooker player, Freeman of Basildon)
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Con, Burstead)
- BROWN, Cllr Adele (Lab, Fryerns)
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW)
- CANHAM, Cllr Gary (UKIP, Pitsea NW)
- Citizens' Advice Bureau
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Council Tax
- DADDS, Cllr David, JP (Con, Billericay East)
- Daily Mirror
- ELLIS, Mark (fmr. UKIP cllr for Laindon Park)
- Employment & General Purposes Cttee (now disbanded)
- Essex County Council
- Freedom of the Borough
- GIBBS, Dr Phillip (UKIP candidate)
- GORDON, Lynda (fmr. Labour cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- Government
- Grammar Schools
- Gypsies & Trevellers
- Hannakins Farm
- HEDLEY, Cllr Anthony (Con, Billericay West)
- HILLIER, Cllr Stephen (Con, Langdon Hills)
- HILLIER, Sandra (fmr. Tory cllr for Langdon Hills)
- Housing Revenue Account
- Independence from EU Group
- Joint Standards Committee
- Labour Party
- LAKE, Desmond
- LAWRENCE, Cllr Danny, BEM (Con, Billericay West)
- Le GRESLEY, Nigel, JP (fmr. UKIP cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- Local Budget
- MALSBURY, Trevor (fmr. UKIP cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- Marketing & Communications
- McGEORGE, Cllr Melissa (Lab, Vange)
- McGURRAN, Aidan (fmr. Labour cllr for Pitsea SE)
- Members' Question Time
- MORRIS, Cllr Don (Con, Wickford Castledon)
- OSBORNE, Rt Hon George, CH (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- Part-Night Lighting
- Public Question Time
- Range, The
- Royal Anglian Regiment
- SARGENT, Cllr Terri (Con, Crouch)
- Sempra Homes
- SHEPPARD, David (fmr. UKIP cllr for Fryerns)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- SULLIVAN, Cllr Stuart (Con, Billericay East)
- TAYLOR, Byron (fmr. Labour cllr for Vange)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- WHITLOCK, Max, MBE (Freeman of the Borough)
- Wickford Independents
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Full Council 18.12.14
22nd December 2014The events at last week’s meeting of Full Council were fairly hum-drum, considering the backdrop and the huge changes to the Council’s composition over the past few weeks, and I therefore anticipate this blog will be more ‘gossipy’ than usual. So, if political gossip and intrigue does not interest you then read no further. First,…
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- AUSTIN, Ron
- Basildon Borough Council
- BIRD, Roger
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Con, Burstead)
- BOLTER, Natasha
- CARSWELL, Douglas (fmr. UKIP MP)
- CLANCY, Cllr Imelda (Ind, Pitsea NW)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Council Tax
- Crime
- DOVE, Alf, MBE (late Labour cllr)
- Essex County Council
- Essex Fire Authority
- GORDON, Cllr Andrew (Lab, Lee Chapel North)
- GORDON, Lynda (fmr. Labour cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- GROGAN, Pat
- HAMILTON, Neil, AM (UKIP member of the Welsh Assembly)
- HEDLEY, Cllr Anthony (Con, Billericay West)
- HUNTMAN, Jamie (fmr. UKIP Cty cllr)
- Independence from EU Group
- Independent Labour Group (now defunct)
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrats
- Local Elections
- LORD, Roger
- METCALFE, Stephen, MP (Tory MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- MUNYAMBU, Daniel (fmr. Independent cllr for Vange)
- O'FLYNN, Patrick, MEP (UKIP)
- RACKLEY, Pat (fmr. Labour / Independent Labour cllr for St Martin's)
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Labour / Independent Labour / Green cllr for St Martin's)
- RECKLESS, Mark, AM (UKIP member of the Welsh Assembly)
- SMITH, Ald. Nigel, JP (fmr. Labour cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- TAYLOR, Byron (fmr. Labour cllr for Vange)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- WATERS, Anne Marie (UKIP candidate)
- WILLIAMS, Geoff, MBE (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
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Local Elections are upon us
19th May 2014Election time is upon us, with Polling Day on Thursday 22nd May for Basildon Borough Council and also for the European Parliament. It has been nice getting out in Billericay East ward and getting to meet with and chat to many of you. It has been a little under a year now since I won…
- ARCHER, Tony (late Tory cllr for Billericay East)
- BALL, Cllr Tony (Cty Cllr for Wickford Crouch and fmr. Leader of Basildon Council)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Basildon Sporting Village
- Billericay East (ward)
- Billericay Swimming Pool
- Council Tax
- European elections
- Labour Party
- Leisure & Community Services Scrutiny Committee (now disbanded)
- Local Elections
- Local Plan Core Strategy
- Referendum
- Towngate Theatre
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
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Basildon Council freezes Council Tax again
22nd February 2014Once again, the Conservative administration on Basildon Borough Council have delivered for our residents. I was pleased and proud to vote in favour of the Budget, which has frozen the Council Tax – the FOURTH year running that Basildon Tories have delivered either a freeze or a cut to the Council Tax for our hard-working…