“It’s really gone down the pan,” says 87-year-old Eileen. A pensioner and mother of five long-grown-up children, Eileen and her 88-year-old husband Brian moved to Basildon from Stanmore in north-west ...

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Basildon Council says it is delivering on its promise to regenerate the town centre as a new Aldi at the Westgate shopping centre is set to open "soon".

Basildon Borough Council has granted Barratt Wilson Bowden planning permission for a mixed use development in Basildon town centre. Planning was granted at a committee on Tuesday for two applications ...

Plans to turn a former cinema into a 97-bed Premier Inn hotel in Basildon town centre have been approved by Basildon Council. The four-storey hotel will include a restaurant and bar and a retail space ...

Basildon Council owner Gavin Callaghan hopes Waitrose will open in the town next year Final negotiations are ongoing with Waitrose for the supermarket's first store in an Essex town, a council leader ...

A key road in Basildon is partially blocked amid reports of a "head-on" crash in the town centre this afternoon.

Basildon, a town about 40km to the east of London, was supposed to be a Utopia. In 1948 Lewis Silkin, the then minister for town-and-country planning, proclaimed that “Basildon will become a city ...

Final negotiations are ongoing with Waitrose for a new store in an Essex town, a council leader has said. Gavin Callaghan, the Labour leader of Basildon Council, told fellow councillors that a ...