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  Basildon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basildon is an industrial town and district in Essex, England with a population in excess of 120,000 (Census 2001).
Basildon was created as a new town in 1949 from the merger of several smaller towns, and expanded to accommodate overspill population from London.
Basildon is considered to be a barometer of public opinion and has returned General Election results in line with the nation since the 1950s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basildon   (209 words)

  
 Basildon, England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Council for Voluntary Service A guide to the voluntary sector and volunteering in the Basildon District.
Basildon District Council site designed to provide facts, tips and advice that may be useful about living, working and visiting the Basildon District.
Basildon and District Pelargonium Fellowship Information on the meetings, the annual show and the contact details.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Basildon,_England.html   (327 words)

  
 Essex Development & Regeneration Agency
Basildon is part of the Thames Gateway, Government’s largest Regeneration initiative, and a priority area for development.
The district is becoming an attractive location for the office market with a superb communications network, the heart of London is only 30 miles away with easy access to the M25 from which all London airports can be accessed.
Basildon District Council supports the development of local companies and encourages new companies to establish themselves in the district.
www.essex.invest.org.uk /basildon.html   (265 words)

  
 Supporting People Housing Needs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon’s Housing Strategy Statement indicates a commitment to work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies in seeking to develop a range of appropriate supported housing for vulnerable people, which will contribute towards its commitment of social inclusion and balanced communities.
The resident population of the District measured in the 2001 Census was 59,418, comprising 24,189 households.
The District does however have the highest recorded change in the size of its population for the ten years between the Census, an increase of 12.6% between 1991 and 2001 (Office of National Statistics).
supportingpeople.essexcc.gov.uk /housing_needs.asp   (2512 words)

  
 English Partnerships - Basildon
Basildon is home to the world’s first glass bell tower in St Martin’s Square and has 162 ha (400 acres) of parkland - the largest area of parks and open spaces in Essex.
The population for Basildon District is 165,888 and for the new town is 102,400 (2001 Census).
Basildon Town Centre Regeneration: to assess the options and capacity for the town centre, English Partnerships and Basildon Renaissance Partnership has commissioned a study to identify the key areas for redevelopment and assess what improvements can be made in both retail and housing terms.
www.englishpartnerships.co.uk /basildon.htm   (489 words)

  
 Government Offices | East of England |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon District is between London and Southend and covers an area of 110 square kilometres.
The population of Basildon increased by 6.1 per cent to 166,400 between 1983 and 2003, this compared with an 11.5 per cent rise in the East of England and a 6.5 per cent rise in England.
Basildon is part of the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership which was created in 2001 to improve the prosperity of the area.
www.goeast.gov.uk /goeast/our_region/272094/essexkf/basildon_kf?view=Print   (499 words)

  
 Basildon Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon District Council is considering plans from Barberry House Properties for the transformation of the former Gordon's Gin site in Laindon into separate factories.
Basildon Council is considering plans from Basildon United for the construction of a new football stadium, including pitch, pavilion and training ground.
Basildon Council is considering plans from UCI to double the size of the Festival Leisure Park multiplex cinema to 20 screens.
www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /bal66441.htm   (67 words)

  
 Basildon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Essex - } Basildon is an industrial town and district in Essex England with a population of around 101,000 (1994 est).
The town is located roughly 30 miles (50 km) east of London and 12 miles (19km) southwest of Chelmsford.
The pop/rock band Depeche Mode originated from Basildon, as did the singer Alison Moyet.
en.mcfly.org /Basildon   (154 words)

  
 The Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Basildon District Council has been invited to give a key-note presentation on workplace safety at a London conference organised by The Suzy Lamplugh Trust.
Sue Lewis, Manager of Personnel Services for Basildon District Council will be outlining the personal safety policies and procedures which have been put in place, as an example of best practice for other businesses and councils to follow.
Basildon Council's Chief Executive, John Robb, said: "In June 1997 the Council gave all its employees the opportunity to hear Diana Lamplugh's message for themselves as she speaks more good sense in half an hour than most professionals do in years.
www.suzylamplugh.org /news/19990419.shtml   (418 words)

  
 Basildon Stories - The Story of Basildon & District as they were 1937 - 1947
I now begin to write this story of Basildon and District, as I knew it in the period of the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-forties.
Basildon was dotted with these farms or smallholdings as they were called.
This was Basildon village...all around a land of poultry farms and orchards.
www.basildon.com /history/stories/story2a.html   (739 words)

  
 BDRA - "The Resident"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The Labour MP for Basildon, Angela Smith, asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, John Prescott, when he would announce his decision on the Local Government Commission's recommendations for the reorganisation of the district of Basildon.
It is not a disaster by any means, Basildon Council does provide good services, but with only 9 Councillors representing Billericay in the Council Chamber, from a total of 42 Councillors, how will it be possible to make sure that not only is the voice of Billericay heard but steps are taken to heed it.
Basildon District Council is to resurface Western Road between the mini roundabout at Summerdale and the traffic lights at its junction with the High Street.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/the_buchanans/ressep98.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Broxbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Broxbourne is a local government district and borough in Hertfordshire, England.
The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Cheshunt and Hoddesdon urban districts.
Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broxbourne   (92 words)

  
 Basildon Renaissance Partnership - Business Hub of the Thames Gateway
Established in April 2002 as the local regeneration partnership for Basildon District within the Thames Gateway.
The Basildon Renaissance Partnership (BRP) was set up in April 2002 to deliver Basildon District's regeneration projects, which are part of the Thames Gateway vision for South Essex.
The Partnership plans, manages and coordinates a programme of projects across the District, and its primary functions are to seek funding, ensure that local people benefit and achieve sustainable forms of development.
www.basildonrenaissance.com   (215 words)

  
 The District of Basildon (Electoral Changes) Order 2001
(2) Elections of all councillors for all wards of the district shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002[5].
The areas of the new district wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3).
Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Basildon District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2001/20012443.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Basildon and District Support Group of the Alzheimer's Society
Basildon and District Support Group of the Alzheimer's Society
Over a number of years the areas of Basildon, Billericay and Wickford in Essex have been served by a dedicated voluntary group of people in support of persons having Alzheimers and their Carers.
To this end the Basildon and District Alzheimers Support Group invite suitable individuals to serve on a Steering Group to prepare the way forward.
www.alzheimers.org.uk /basildon   (402 words)

  
 Swan Projects Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
In partnership with Basildon District Council, 16 blocks of unpopular bedsit properties transferred to the Association from the Council in March 1999.
The £5m redevelopment of homes in the Vange II area of Basildon has been achieved with the help of residents who were involved in the redesigning of their own homes, and the whole development project.
The Basildon Foyer provides supported housing and access to employment, training and education for young single people and lone parents and will be celebrating one year operation in June 1999.
www.swan.org.uk /newswan/projects/archive.htm   (913 words)

  
 Basildon Zoo disgrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
This year, in November 2001, the zoo license, permitting Basildon Zoo to exhibit animals to the public is up for renewal.
Over the last 13 years, the Born Free Foundation, the former Director of the National Federation of Zoos, the RSPCA, Basildon Council’s consultant veterinary surgeon and visiting members of the public, have questioned the standards of animal husbandry and the general conditions at Basildon Zoo.
In 1988, the RSPCA stated that the cramped, dilapidated and unhygienic conditions at Basildon Zoo made Basildon the “worst zoo in Britain”.
www.bornfree.org.uk /zoocheck/zoonews003.htm   (529 words)

  
 Basildon Zoo trade wild animals
Basildon MP Angela Smith has joined the Captive Animals' Protection Society in expressing concern over wild animals being sold from zoos following revelations that the former Basildon Zoo sold a lion to undercover reporters.
Basildon Zoo has been surrounded in controversy for many years and was the subject of a boycott campaign by animal rights groups.
CAPS has called on Basildon District Council to launch an investigation into the sale and to seek prosecution against those involved where necessary.
www.captiveanimals.org /zoos/basildon2.htm   (356 words)

  
 BASILDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon is situated in the South of Essex, just 30 miles east of London.
Basildon has some of the best sports and leisure facilities in Essex.
The Festival Leisure Park, situated approximately 1 mile North of Basildon Town Centre is the largest leisure entertainment complex in Essex.
www.townfacts.co.uk /new_page_35.htm   (362 words)

  
 Business Awards 2005
Basildon District Council is proud to be the Overall Sponsor of the Basildon District Business Awards 2005.
is one of the largest district councils in the country, serving a population of 169,000 in an area covering nearly 43 square miles.
Basildon District Council is pleased to sponsor the Environmental Awareness category of this year’s Basildon Business Awards.
www.essexbusinessawards.co.uk /basildon_sponsors.html   (2242 words)

  
 Basildon History Online
This is often overlooked or unknown by some who are of the belief that Basildon was "nothing but fields" before the coming of the new town and its early pioneers in the 1950s.
In fact the name Basildon is not new at all, being of Saxon origin meaning 'Beorhtels Hill', but in the 1940s was little more than a small village near the site of Holy Cross Church.
Census statistics for the Basildon district comprising Laindon, Pitsea, Vange, Lee Chapel, Dunton etc. stood at 4,449 by 1921 reaching 12,968 by 1931 and rising still further to 34,000 by 1951 - the year Basildon welcomed its first 'new' residents.
www.basildon.com /history/home.html   (492 words)

  
 Planning Procedures
Basildon District Council is the local Planning Authority, and considers planning applications relating to the District of Basildon at the Development Control Committee meetings held at The Basildon Centre.
Basildon District Council forward to Town and Parish Councils for a specified period of time, relevant planning applications relating to their Town or Parish, and invite Town and Parish Councils’ comment within 21 days of the date of the letter.
Decisions made by officers and by members of Basildon District Council on planning applications are forwarded to all Town and Parish Councils.
www.billericaytc.freeserve.co.uk /procedures.htm   (533 words)

  
 SCOTT WILSON HELPS BASILDON COUNCIL RENEW HOUSING - scottwilson.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
In addition to dealing with the ground movement problems that are particularly prevalent in Basildon, Scott Wilson are working with the council to set up major works programmes that will extend the working life of their buildings.
Within the last few years the council has decided to implement a district wide concrete repair programme on its housing, much of which was built in the 1960s and 70s.
Scott Wilson is currently completing a review of all blocks of flats throughout the district to determine the amount and extent of concrete repairs that are required.
www.scottwilson.com /nm/publish/news_140.html   (303 words)

  
 Epping Forest (district) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Chigwell Urban District, Epping Urban District and Waltham Holy Cross Urban District, along with most of Epping and Ongar Rural District.
As of 2005, the members of parliament for the district are Eleanor Laing (Conservative) for the Epping Forest constituency, whilst Eric Pickles (Conservative) sits for the Brentwood and Ongar constituency, covering the east of the district, and the area around Nazeing lies in the Harlow constituency represented by Bill Rammell (Labour).
The district is roughly divided into four parts by the M25 motorway and the M11 motorway which form a junction near Epping.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Epping_Forest_%28district%29   (420 words)

  
 BBC - Essex - Voices - Basildon Photo Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
In the 1940s Basildon was little more than a small village near the site of the Holy Cross Church.
By 1921 the census statistics for Basildon stood at 4,449.
By 2000 Basildon's population was in excess of 120,000.
www.bbc.co.uk /essex/voices/basildon_photo_gallery.shtml   (263 words)

  
 Basildon District Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The Basildon Centre, St. Martin's Square, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1DL (01268) 533333
Tell us what you think on the big issues in the district here now or at a meeting near you.
For kids and teenagers with loads of info to help you with school and family life and stuff to keep you entertained.
www.basildon.gov.uk   (109 words)

  
 Billericay District Residents' Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The Basildon District Replacement Local Plan (BDRLP) will be discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee of Basildon District Council on Thursday 30 June at 7.30pm in Meeting Room 1 in the Basildon Centre.
It is said that the boundaries of the Green Belt were set in 1998 when the Basildon District Local Plan (BDLP) was adopted and in accordance with Government planning advice “they were defined with the intention of enduring rather than operating as a mechanism for phasing development”.
Much time and effort has been invested by council officers and councillors in the preparation of this document and they are to be congratulated on the skill and dedication they have brought to the task.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/the_buchanans/jul0501.htm   (521 words)

  
 Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The culmination of this is a new £17 million, three-storey, 321-bed ward block that has facilitated the recent centralisation of all inpatient services onto the main hospital site and increased overall bed capacity.
Following public consultation, Essex Health Authority has agreed Basildon Hospital as the recommended location for a proposed multi-million pound specialist tertiary cardio-thoracic centre for Essex.
It will be housed in a new, three-storey 14,000-m2 building, with four specialist theatres for heart and other major chest surgery, over 100 beds, its own critical care unit, catheterisation labs for complex cardiology investigations and procedures, day stay facilities and outpatient clinics.
www.nursingnetuk.com /employerdetails/2   (246 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Essex: Basildon: Society and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Basildon and District Pelargonium Fellowship - Information on the meetings, the annual show and the contact details.
Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Council for Voluntary Service - A guide to the voluntary sector and volunteering in the Basildon District.
Basildon Womens Refuge - A charitable organisation providing a refuge for women and their children who have been victims of domestic violence, which may be physical, mental or sexual in the local area.
www.dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Essex/Basildon/Society_and_Culture   (305 words)

  
 BBC - essex Going Out - Visual Arts - Progression - Wat Tyler Country park - Basildon District Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
As a New Town, Basildon has always been in the forefront of ensuring Public Art is included in the development of our District.
Five years ago Basildon District Council completed the most extensive consultation on PUblic Art that it had undertaken.
The objective of the consultation was to choose a design for a new statue for the District.
bbc.co.uk /essex/going_out/visual_arts/progression/progression.shtml   (336 words)

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