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Happy New Year, readers (seems odd to be saying that in February but I realise this is my first blog since December, so hope you all had a good Christmas).   As you all know, it is not generally my practice to write up Planning Committee meetings unless they are of interest to Billericay East…

The 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,…

I don’t generally write up Planning Committee meetings but, as Tuesday night’s one has proved controversial and I’ve been getting lots of questions about it – both via e-mail and directed to me on social media – I thought it’d be simpler and easier to write it up for my website.  So here goes. For…

My 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…

I have received enquiries from a number of you regarding the current situation with Elizabeth Cottage in Billericay High Street, at the junction of High Street and Norsey Road in Billericay East ward.

I wrote a blog for the Council

Changes to the Electoral Register In case you are not aware, the way the Electoral Register is compiled has changed to a system called Individual Electoral Registration (IER). Whereas one person (the ‘head of the household’) used to be able to register everyone who lived at a particular address, as of 10th June each individual…

Here is my letter, recently published in The Enquirer regarding Basildon Labour’s ongoing tit for tat over whether or not the Conservatives and UKIP have gone into coalition on Basildon Council (we haven’t, for the record). ONE can only wonder at what your readers must make of the recent flurry of letters from Labour politicians…

I just wanted to record some thoughts on last Thursday

Not quite ‘the morning after the night before’, considering the night before did not actually end until 4 o’clock this morning and I am now writing this at 7 o’clock in the evening on what is technically the same day, having just regained some sense of equilibrium – but you take my meaning. I am obviously still feeling…