Local Elections are here - Vote Conservative on May 5th

Basildon residents will shortly elect a third of Basildon Borough Council

The Borough of Basildon will go to the polls on Thursday 5th May to elect fourteen councillors to Basildon Council. The outcome will decide whether or not the Conservatives maintain control of the Council or the Labour/Independent alliance is allowed back in. *NB: There are no elections in St. Martin's or Vange wards.

The Labour-led alliance governed Basildon from 2019 to 2021 and imposed disastrous plans across the Borough, including monster tower blocks for Basildon Town Centre, closing Laindon Community Centre, stalling on projects in Pitsea like the new swimming pool at Eversley, whilst cancelling entirely the Innovation Warehouse that had been earmarked for Wat Tyler Park, withdrawing funding from Billericay, and breaking promises in Wickford, such as building on Wick Green, all the while dodging scrutiny by both councillors and the voting public.

In May 2021, Basildon Conservatives won key seats in Laindon Park, Langdon Hills, Pitsea South-East, Vange and St Martin’s, the latter costing the then Labour Mayor his seat. This enabled us to take back control. Since them, the Conservative Administration has:

• Withdrawn Labour's flawed Local Plan, which sought to build too many houses on our Green Belt and fill our town centres with monstrous tower blocks.
• Kept the tax burden on Basildon residents as low as possible but FREEZING Council Tax.
• Re-opened Laindon Community Centre.
• Progressed the new Pitsea Swimming Pool.
• Fought tooth and nail to try to put a stop to the previous Administration's disastrous tower blocks in Basildon Town Centre.
• Scrapped the financially risky £8m 'Youth Zone' in favour of direct investment in youth services.
• Stopped Labour plans to merge Basildon with Thurrock and their naval-gazing changes to local government.
• Honoured our pledge for direct investment in additional policing for Basildon and zero tolerance on fly-tipping and enforcement by allocating £400K to create a new team of Community Safety Wardens and introducing a borough-wide Public Space Protection Order.
• Froze fees and charges on halls, car parks and cemeteries/crematoriums (rejecting Labour's pandemic 'death tax').
• Committed £40m for the 'Safe & Sound' programme of estates improvements.
• Delivered 125 new high quality homes for social rent and added an additional 200 homes to the Council's house-build programme over the next 2 years
• Also delivered 43 new homes via Sempra, the Council's wholly-owned company, with a further 255 new homes currently in the works across Basildon, Billericay and Wickford; part of an overall pipeline of 1,100 new homes for local people.
• Kept social rent rises in line with inflation and rejected Labour's previous inflation-busting rent hikes on social tenants.         
• Allocated £2.7m for our comprehensive borough-wide Car Parking Strategy to look at ways to alleviate problem parking.
• Made significant investment in parks, play areas and outdoor spaces across the borough.  
• Put in place plans to mark Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June.   

You can read full details of the Conservative Administration's first Budget here.

Additionally, if returned to power, Basildon Conservatives will:

• Continue to vigorously oppose the proposed Pitsea Incinerator (please sign our petition here).
• Keep fighting against monster tower blocks in our town centres across the 5 towns.
• Safeguard our green spaces.
• Cut outrageous waste at the Basildon Centre, such as the grotesque £150K in taxpayers' money spent by the former Labour Leader on a plush new office for himself and more than £2,000 on a portrait.
• Continue to invest in YOUR priorities, in consultation with you.
• Do all we can to help residents address the cost of living.

For more ward-specific local policies, please contact your local candidate(s) directly or feel free to email info@basildonconservatives.com. We would love to heard from you and hear your priorities for our borough.

Support your local Basildon borough candidates

Billericay East - Andrew Schrader
Billericay West - Anthony Hedley
Burstead - Andrew Baggott
Crouch - Terri Sargent
Fryerns - Sandeep Sandhu
Laindon Park - Jeff Henry
Langdon Hills - Chris Allen
Lee Chapel North - Deepak Shukla
Nethermayne - Chima Okorafor
Pitsea North-West - Sam Gascoyne
Pitsea South-East - Luke Mackenzie
Wickford Castledon - Alex Myers
Wickford North - Peter Holliman
Wickford Park - George Jeffery