Basildon is set to be transformed into a giant interactive game to encourage physical activity across the borough. Beat the ...

WORKS are underway on a £250,000 new sports pitch in an Essex town, as families welcome the “much-needed” investment. Basildon Borough Council is spending the money on the new pitch for football and ...

The 1960s tower block has had flooding issues and the council is looking for a private investor.

WORK on a new Aldi store at a major UK shopping centre has begun. The budget supermarket giant is taking over the site of a ...

A motion to reverse a merger with Thurrock Council is set to be debated by Basildon Council next week.

Aldi will ‘carry on to the benefit’, a new council leader has said. The regeneration of Westgate Shopping Park in Basildon, ...

Plans are being drawn up to reopen the site of a former Essex M&S department store, according to a new council leader.

Thurrock’s new Reform council leader has vowed to fight plans to merge the borough with Basildon under controversial local government reforms. Councillor Richard Bingley set out his priorities before ...

An Essex council is close to selling off a Grade II listed town centre block of flats, according to the new leader. Brooke ...

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 ...

Beat the Street will invite residents to walk, cycle, run or wheel their way around the borough.