Category: SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
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Full Council – 15.10.15
19th October 2015As I come to write up last Thursday’s meeting of Full Council, I would just ask readers to bear with me, as this was a mammoth SEVEN-HOUR meeting that went on until two o’clock in the morning. The meeting started at 7pm, earlier than usual, with a special Extraordinary Meeting to consider two nominations for…
- ALLEN, Cllr Stuart (Con, Crouch)
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- BAGGOTT, Cllr Andrew (Con, Burstead & fmr Leader of Basildon Council)
- BALL, Alan (fmr. Wickford Ind cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- BALL, Cllr Tony (Cty Cllr for Wickford Crouch and fmr. Leader of Basildon Council)
- Basildon Borough Council
- BENNETT, Alan (fmr. Lab cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Ab Ind, Burstead)
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW & Leader of Basildon Council)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- DADDS, Cllr David, JP (Con, Billericay East & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- Dry Street
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- HILLIER, Cllr Stephen (Con, Langdon Hills)
- HOLLIMAN, Cllr Peter (Ab Ind, Wickford North)
- Independent Group (Smithites)
- JACKMAN, Chris (fmr. Tory cllr for Wickford Park)
- Labour Party
- LARKIN, Ald. Mo, BEM JP DL (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- LAZARUS, Roland (Billericay resident)
- Liberal Democrat and Green Group (now defunct)
- LOVEY, Danny (fmr. Tory cllr)
- MAHENDRAN, Bala (fmr Chf. Exec., Basildon Council)
- MALSBURY, Trevor (fmr. UKIP cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- McGURRAN, Cllr Aidan (Lab, Vange)
- MOORE, Cllr Dr Richard (Con, Burstead)
- MORRIS, Cllr Carole (Con, Wickford North)
- MORRIS, Cllr Don (Con, Wickford Castledon)
- OSBORNE, Rt Hon George, CH (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- Planning Committee
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Green cllr for St Martin's)
- SCHOFIELD, John (fmr. Tory cty cllr for Westley Heights)
- SMITH of BASILDON, Angela, Baroness (Labour peer)
- SMITH, Ald. Nigel, JP (fmr. Labour cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- Wickford UKIP (now defunct)
- WILLIAMS, Geoff, MBE (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
- WILLIAMS, Linda (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
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UKIP split
16th July 2015Well, it was only a matter of time and all of us in the Conservative Group predicted it would eventually happen – how could it not with such a motley assortment of waifs and strays? – but the inevitable has finally officially been announced. The UKIP Group on Basildon Council has split. Councillors have formally…
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- BALL, Alan (fmr. Wickford Ind cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- BROCKMAN, Cllr Eunice (WInd, Wickford North)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- HOLLIMAN, Cllr Peter (Ab Ind, Wickford North)
- Independent Group (Smithites)
- Labour Party
- Le GRESLEY, Nigel, JP (fmr. UKIP cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- Liberal Democrat and Green Group (now defunct)
- Local Elections
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
- Wickford UKIP (now defunct)
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Planning Meeting – 30.06.15
6th July 2015As regular readers will know, I do not generally write up meetings of Basildon Council’s Planning Committee, but last week’s meeting held on Tuesday 30th June turned out to be an unusually controversial affair. Firstly, a bit of background on the new enlarged committee, which now has ten members: four Tories – Cllrs Carole Morris…
- ALLEN, Cllr Stuart (Con, Crouch)
- BALL, Alan (fmr. Wickford Ind cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- BENNETT, Alan (fmr. Lab cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- BROWN, Cllr Adele (Lab, Fryerns)
- ELLIS, Mark (fmr. UKIP cllr for Laindon Park)
- Environment Agency
- Essex County Council
- Green Belt
- HILLIER, Cllr Stephen (Con, Langdon Hills)
- LAWRENCE, Cllr Danny, BEM (Con, Billericay West)
- McGURRAN, Cllr Aidan (Lab, Vange)
- MORRIS, Cllr Carole (Con, Wickford North)
- Planning Committee
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Green cllr for St Martin's)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- Solar farm
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Annual Meeting 28.05.15
31st May 2015So, thought I’d write-up the Basildon Council Annual Meeting held on Thursday. These are normally quite civil, set-piece affairs, where we elect our Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the municipal year and also pass the winning party’s Order Paper, enabling them to form an Administration. The Order Paper confirms the Leader and Deputy Leader of…
- ALLEN, Cllr Stuart (Con, Crouch)
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- ARNOLD, Amanda (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE)
- BAGGOTT, Cllr Andrew (Con, Burstead & fmr Leader of Basildon Council)
- BARNES, Andy (fmr. Tory cllr for Laindon Park)
- Basildon Borough 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)
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Green Party
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- HEDLEY, Cllr Anthony (Con, Billericay West)
- HILLIER, Cllr Stephen (Con, Langdon Hills)
- HOLLIMAN, Cllr Peter (Ab Ind, Wickford North)
- Independent Group (Smithites)
- Labour Party
- LARKIN, Ald. Mo, BEM JP DL (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- LAWRENCE, Cllr Danny, BEM (Con, Billericay West)
- Le GRESLEY, Nigel, JP (fmr. UKIP cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- Liberal Democrat and Green Group (now defunct)
- Liberal Democrats
- Local Elections
- MAHENDRAN, Bala (fmr Chf. Exec., Basildon Council)
- McGEORGE, Cllr Melissa (Lab, Vange)
- McGURRAN, Cllr Aidan (Lab, Vange)
- MOORE, Cllr Dr Richard (Con, Burstead)
- MORRIS, Cllr Carole (Con, Wickford North)
- MORRIS, Cllr Don (Con, Wickford Castledon)
- MOWE, Michael (fmr. Tory cllr for Wickford North)
- PETRE, John, 18th Lord, KCVO (fmr. Lord-Lieutenant of Essex)
- RACKLEY, Pat (fmr. Ind Labour cllr for St Martin's)
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Green cllr for St Martin's)
- SARGENT, Cllr Terri (Con, Crouch)
- 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)
- WARD, Stephen (fmr. UKIP cllr for Pitsea SE)
- WILLIAMS, Geoff, MBE (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
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Elections 2015
7th May 2015It is now officially Polling Day and chronic insomnia allows me this opportunity to make some election night predictions and speak briefly about the elections before us – not just the General Election to Parliament but also our own local borough council elections. Every politician says at every election that it is “the most important…
- ABRAHALL, David (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE)
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- ANSELL, Cllr Andrew (Lab, Pitsea SE)
- ARCHIBALD, William (late Labour cllr for Fryerns)
- ARNOLD, Amanda (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE)
- BALL, Cllr Tony (Cty Cllr for Wickford Crouch and fmr. Leader of Basildon Council)
- BARNES, Andy (fmr. Tory cllr for Laindon Park)
- BARON, John, MP (Con, Basildon & Billericay)
- Basildon Borough Council
- BENNETT, Alan (fmr. Lab cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- BLAKE, Ann (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE)
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Ab Ind, Burstead)
- BOBBIN, Ald. Keith (fmr. Labour cllr for Pitsea NW)
- BUCKLEY, Sylvia (late Tory cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- BURTON-SAMPSON, Cllr David (Lab, St Martin's & Mayor of Basildon)
- BUXTON, Andrew (fmr. Lab cllr for St Martin's)
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW & Leader of Basildon Council)
- CLANCY, Cllr Imelda (Ind, Langdon Hills)
- CLEGG, Rt Hon Sir Nick (fmr. Lib Dem leader)
- COKER, Mark (Tory candidate)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- DADDS, Cllr David, JP (Con, Billericay East & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- DAVIES, Cllr Allan (Lab, Fryerns)
- DORNAN, John (fmr. Tory cllr for Laindon Park)
- DOWNES, Paul (UKIP candidate)
- DWYER, Ian (Tory candidate)
- ELLIS, Mark (fmr. UKIP cllr for Laindon Park)
- FRANCOIS, Rt Hon Mark, MP (Con, Rayleigh & Wickford)
- GANDY, Kim
- GANDY, Terry (UKIP candidate)
- General Election
- GILLAN, Stephen (Labour candidate)
- GORDON, Cllr Andrew (Lab, Lee Chapel North)
- GRANT, Colin (Lib Dem candidate)
- GRANT, Liz (Lib Dem candidate)
- HAMILTON, Neil, AM (UKIP member of the Welsh Assembly)
- HEDLEY-BARNES, Stephanie (Tory candidate)
- HEDLEY, Cllr Anthony (Con, Billericay West)
- HILLIER, Cllr Stephen (Con, Langdon Hills)
- HILLIER, Sandra (fmr. Tory cllr for Langdon Hills)
- HODGE, Stephen (fmr. N'mayne Ind cllr for Nethermayne)
- HORN, Nigel (Lib Dem candidate)
- HOWARD, Martin (Lib Dem candidate)
- HOWARD, Vivien (Lib Dem candidate)
- HYDE, Jilly (fmr. Tory cllr for Laindon Park)
- JACKMAN, Chris (fmr. Tory cllr for Wickford Park)
- JAMES, John (UKIP candidate)
- JENKINS, Phil (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
- KETTLE, Cllr Pauline (Ind, Nethermayne)
- KIRKMAN, Cllr David (Lab, Fryerns)
- KIRKMAN, Paul (fmr. Labour Leader of Basildon Council)
- KONSTANTINIDIS, George (UKIP PPC for Basildon & Billericay)
- LARKIN, Ald. Mo, BEM JP DL (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- LAWRENCE, Cllr Danny, BEM (Con, Billericay West)
- Le GRESLEY, Nigel, JP (fmr. UKIP cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- LE-SURF, Mike (Labour PPC for South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- LIVESEY, Ron (late Tory cllr for Pitsea NW)
- Local Elections
- LOW, Tony (fmr. Tory candidate, now Ind)
- LUDER, Ian, CBE (UKIP PPC for South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- MAY, Michael (UKIP candidate)
- McCAFFERY, Susan (UKIP candidate)
- McCREA, John
- McGEORGE, Cllr Melissa (Lab, Vange)
- McGURRAN, Cllr Aidan (Lab, Vange)
- METCALFE, Stephen, MP (Con, South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- MORRIS, Cllr Carole (Con, Wickford North)
- MORRIS, Cllr Don (Con, Wickford Castledon)
- MOWE, Michael (fmr. Tory cllr for Wickford North)
- MUNYAMBU, Daniel (fmr. Ind cllr for Vange)
- NICE, Steve (Lib Dem candidate)
- RACKLEY, Pat (fmr. Ind Labour cllr for St Martin's)
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Green cllr for St Martin's)
- REID, Cllr Patricia (Lab, Pitsea North-West)
- RICHARDS, Alan
- Runners & Riders
- SCAROLA, Cllr John (Lab, Laindon Park)
- SHEPPARD, David (fmr. UKIP cllr for Fryerns)
- SMITH of BASILDON, Angela, Baroness (Labour peer)
- SMITH, Ald. Nigel, JP (fmr. Labour cllr for Lee Chapel North)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- STEPHENS, Nicole (Tory candidate)
- TAYLOR, Byron (fmr. Labour cllr for Vange)
- TAYLOR, Jenefer (Labour candidate)
- THOMPSON, Martin
- TOMLIN, Cllr Frank (Billericay town cllr)
- WARD, Stephen (fmr. UKIP cllr for Pitsea SE)
- WATERS, Anne Marie (UKIP candidate)
- WEBB, John (UKIP candidate)
- WILLIAMS, Ben, OBE (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
- WILLIAMS, Geoff, MBE (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
- WILLIAMS, Linda (fmr. Lib Dem cllr for Nethermayne)
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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 (Ab Ind, Burstead)
- BOLTER, Natasha
- CARSWELL, Douglas (fmr. UKIP MP)
- CLANCY, Cllr Imelda (Ind, Langdon Hills)
- 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)
- Independent Group (Smithites)
- Independent Labour Group (now defunct)
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrats
- Local Elections
- LORD, Roger
- METCALFE, Stephen, MP (Con, South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- MUNYAMBU, Daniel (fmr. Ind cllr for Vange)
- O'FLYNN, Patrick (SDP, formerly UKIP MEP)
- RACKLEY, Pat (fmr. Ind Labour cllr for St Martin's)
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. 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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Full Council – 16.10.14
22nd October 2014My last blog on Full Council (sadly since disappeared due to technical issues) proved popular, so I thought I would do another quick write-up of last Thursday’s meeting of Full Council, which proved almost as hot-tempered as the last one. We knew from the get-go that it was going to be a long meeting because…
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- GORDON, Cllr Andrew (Lab, Lee Chapel North)
- HALFON, Rt Hon Robert, MP (Con, Harlow)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- Labour Party
- Living Wage
- MILIBAND, Rt Hon Ed, MP (Lab, Doncaster North)
- National Minimum Wage
- OPPERMAN, Guy, MP (Con, Hexham)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- TAYLOR, Byron (fmr. Labour cllr for Vange)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)
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Council AGM 2014
15th June 2014I just wanted to record some thoughts on last Thursday
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- BALL, Cllr Tony (Cty Cllr for Wickford Crouch and fmr. Leader of Basildon Council)
- Basildon Borough Council
- BLAKE, Cllr Kevin (Ab Ind, Burstead)
- Citizens' Advice Bureau
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- DAVIES, Cllr Allan (Lab, Fryerns)
- ELLIS, Mark (fmr. UKIP cllr for Laindon Park)
- HEDLEY, Cllr Anthony (Con, Billericay West)
- Independent Labour Group (now defunct)
- JACKMAN, Chris (fmr. Tory cllr for Wickford Park)
- Labour Party
- LARKIN, Ald. Mo, BEM JP DL (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea SE & fmr Mayor of Basildon)
- LAWRENCE, Cllr Danny, BEM (Con, Billericay West)
- Le GRESLEY, Nigel, JP (fmr. UKIP cllr for Wickford Castledon)
- Local Plan Core Strategy
- MOORE, Cllr Dr Richard (Con, Burstead)
- Planning Committee
- RACKLEY, Phil (fmr. Green cllr for St Martin's)
- SARGENT, Cllr Terri (Con, Crouch)
- 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)