15,000 homes could be built in Basildon despite Tory pledge (From Echo)

The Labour councillor is the one playing politics here.


All Councils are being forced to provide more homes to meet demand. Do you expect Basildon Council to just agree to 21,000 homes, of course not, so they have done the right thing by fighting the hige growth and instead trying to fight developments such as that at Bowers Gifford.

hothead wrote:
The Labour councillor is the one playing politics here.


All Councils are being forced to provide more homes to meet demand. Do you expect Basildon Council to just agree to 21,000 homes, of course not, so they have done the right thing by fighting the hige growth and instead trying to fight developments such as that at Bowers Gifford.

Fighting the huge growth? what about the uturn on dry street? and as for bowers gifford i doubt that will be safe neither. There is a councillor from Nottingham who was on the thames gateway project. As is Tony Ball

Luckily the infrastructure is in place to cope with all these extra people.

I think the days of protest & petition are over, they wont stop until basildon is completely packed and every bit of green has been built on, imagine the crime, unemployment, the hospital. We need to tell them sorry, but we wont let you do this to our home town, however that message needs to be put across or enforced, these mugs work for us remember

This is exellent news for Basildon.
Well done Basildon Council on this one, spot on.

politicians not telling the truth to get elected, what a shocker.....

People still fall for the Tory line.

We need more houses, yet everyone complains when its near them.
Get over it, accept it. There is a huge waiting list for houses in every area, not just Basildon or Essex. Unless you are willing to chain yourselves to drums of concrete etc and protest then you will get no where. But just remember that by doing so, you will put up everyone's Council Tax to pay for your 5 mins of disruption. If you don't like it, you are free to move to another area.
Maybe the occupy groups should start taking over the gardens/grounds of MP's and such like rather than buildings to get their point across.
Having houses on green belt land stops the Travelers from buying them and putting their "Homes" on them.
Start to see the bigger picture and longer than till the end of the year and see what's good for the area/country and ALL the people rather than just your short-sighted self for a change.

they're busy building houses in Basildon that, according to several reports in this very newspaper, no-one wants to buy.....

when (if) they get around to the massive and billion pound redevelopment of the town centre they need to seriously think about halving the size of the retail area - how many empty units,men's haird, barbershops, pawnbrokers and poundshops do we really need after all? - and build lots of housing units in the space made available

then there's the ex-car park opposite the BP on Roundacre that's a good brownfield site.

People aren't necessarily against the building of houses it's the systematic raping and pillaging of open, green space that people object to.

Cosmo Spring wrote:
then there's the ex-car park opposite the BP on Roundacre that's a good brownfield site.

People aren't necessarily against the building of houses it's the systematic raping and pillaging of open, green space that people object to.

I am sure that if there was some article in the paper about using that site for houses someone would protest against it, either stating that there is now some new form of tarmac louse or newt and that the ground would be unsafe for the kids play on due to the amount of old engine oil etc that had leaked out of the cars while being parked there etc etc not to mention the noise from the train line and the fumes from the BP garage.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take this place by the scruff of the neck and sort it out for THE FUTURE. Lets get some nice quality housing in and make Basildon (which has become a laughing stock) a desirable place to live.
We won't have this chance again!!!!!
Those that don't like it can always move to Tilbury.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take this place by the scruff of the neck and sort it out for THE FUTURE. Lets get some nice quality housing in

Well said.

Lets try and preserve as much open, green space as we can at the same time though.

The older estates should be redeveloped to increase housing stocks by more efficient and intelligent design.

So are areas like barking & dagenham, romford, canning town desireable places to live? No they are not, they have been concreted over to house the 3rd world just like what is happening in basildon. If basildon is over-crowded, then people who dont own their own home should stop having babies, people should stop applying for council housing from outside the area. When you look how close we are to london, and you look at the state of southend now, basildon is f**king lucky not to be over-run with slimebags and all the council seem to be doing is trying to change that for their own financial gain

DrSpiffSpaffington wrote:
So are areas like barking & dagenham, romford, canning town desireable places to live? No they are not, they have been concreted over to house the 3rd world just like what is happening in basildon. If basildon is over-crowded, then people who dont own their own home should stop having babies, people should stop applying for council housing from outside the area. When you look how close we are to london, and you look at the state of southend now, basildon is f**king lucky not to be over-run with slimebags and all the council seem to be doing is trying to change that for their own financial gain

voters will continue to vote the in a tory led council regardless of this.

Woodenspoon wrote:
We need more houses, yet everyone complains when its near them.
Get over it, accept it. There is a huge waiting list for houses in every area, not just Basildon or Essex. Unless you are willing to chain yourselves to drums of concrete etc and protest then you will get no where. But just remember that by doing so, you will put up everyone's Council Tax to pay for your 5 mins of disruption. If you don't like it, you are free to move to another area.
Maybe the occupy groups should start taking over the gardens/grounds of MP's and such like rather than buildings to get their point across.
Having houses on green belt land stops the Travelers from buying them and putting their "Homes" on them.
Start to see the bigger picture and longer than till the end of the year and see what's good for the area/country and ALL the people rather than just your short-sighted self for a change.

I doubt that local people will be given the new houses.

5759 wrote:
This is a fantastic opportunity to take this place by the scruff of the neck and sort it out for THE FUTURE. Lets get some nice quality housing in and make Basildon (which has become a laughing stock) a desirable place to live.
We won't have this chance again!!!!!
Those that don't like it can always move to Tilbury.

Wouldn't call any of the builds quality housing, one of the new houses has already got scaffolding up in gloucester park, and if you do a bit of research new home owners of these so called quality homes are regretting buying them now

Woodenspoon wrote:
We need more houses, yet everyone complains when its near them.
Get over it, accept it. There is a huge waiting list for houses in every area, not just Basildon or Essex. Unless you are willing to chain yourselves to drums of concrete etc and protest then you will get no where. But just remember that by doing so, you will put up everyone's Council Tax to pay for your 5 mins of disruption. If you don't like it, you are free to move to another area.
Maybe the occupy groups should start taking over the gardens/grounds of MP's and such like rather than buildings to get their point across.
Having houses on green belt land stops the Travelers from buying them and putting their "Homes" on them.
Start to see the bigger picture and longer than till the end of the year and see what's good for the area/country and ALL the people rather than just your short-sighted self for a change.

None of these houses will reduce the council waiting list,

Cosmo Spring wrote:
politicians not telling the truth to get elected, what a shocker.....

People still fall for the Tory line.

Is there anyone left in Essex that actually believes a word, the leader of the Basildon council, Tony Balls says?

These people did and looked what happened to them

http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=MIIptoRzQ
aw

Woodenspoon wrote:
We need more houses, yet everyone complains when its near them.
Get over it, accept it. There is a huge waiting list for houses in every area, not just Basildon or Essex. Unless you are willing to chain yourselves to drums of concrete etc and protest then you will get no where. But just remember that by doing so, you will put up everyone's Council Tax to pay for your 5 mins of disruption. If you don't like it, you are free to move to another area.
Maybe the occupy groups should start taking over the gardens/grounds of MP's and such like rather than buildings to get their point across.
Having houses on green belt land stops the Travelers from buying them and putting their "Homes" on them.
Start to see the bigger picture and longer than till the end of the year and see what's good for the area/country and ALL the people rather than just your short-sighted self for a change.

So to preserve green belt from Travellers it should be built on...wacko!

I beg anybody who thinks this is a good idea to take a train to canning town, its frightening the state of it now you wouldnt even know you were in europe if it wasnt for the extortionate price of a train fare

DrSpiffSpaffington wrote:
I beg anybody who thinks this is a good idea to take a train to canning town, its frightening the state of it now you wouldnt even know you were in europe if it wasnt for the extortionate price of a train fare

Why wouldn't you even know that you were in Europe if you took a train to Canning Town DrSpiffSpaffington?

beverman wrote:

DrSpiffSpaffington wrote:
I beg anybody who thinks this is a good idea to take a train to canning town, its frightening the state of it now you wouldnt even know you were in europe if it wasnt for the extortionate price of a train fare

Why wouldn't you even know that you were in Europe if you took a train to Canning Town DrSpiffSpaffington?

Gee, i wonder...

DrSpiffSpaffington wrote:

beverman wrote:

DrSpiffSpaffington wrote:
I beg anybody who thinks this is a good idea to take a train to canning town, its frightening the state of it now you wouldnt even know you were in europe if it wasnt for the extortionate price of a train fare

Why wouldn't you even know that you were in Europe if you took a train to Canning Town DrSpiffSpaffington?

Gee, i wonder...

Same here, why won't you say?

Ive already said, its full of the 3rd world, no white people, not exactly rocket science

wonder how many of these rabbit hutches sorry houses will be for social housing. hmmmm let me see. not enough to help with the housing list in this town. there will be no green spaces left in this town by the time the tories have their greedy way.
the only option now is for families to have a home is to privatly rent. and the rents are so high they cant afford to save the deposit for 1 of these places. ive had fliers comethrough the door advertizing the houses on markhams chase area, knocking the price down. so if they cant sell those places what gives them the idea they will see the 600 odd places they have earmarked for the top of ballards walk. where will they go to the doctors as our surgey wont be taking them. what about the schools?? the hspital cant cope now. big mistake all these new builds. and if they want to build how about the outskirts of Billericay lots of lovely feilds there they can use.!!!