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On 4 January 1949 Lewis Silkin, Minister of Town and Country Planning, officially designated Basildon as a 'New Town'. Basildon Development Corporation was formed in February 1949 to transform the designated area into a modern new town.
Basildon started as a small rural village, which, according to the Post Office Directory of 1869 had a population of 157, that had increased to 644 by 1929! Many weekend residences began...
On January 4th 1949 he officially designated Basildon a 'new town'. The story and planning of this began many years earlier.
Feb 13, 2017 · SIXTY years ago Basildon was still a fledgling town. One of eight ‘new towns’ created following World War II to alleviate the capital’s overcrowding problems, Basildon had been officially in ...
The Borough of Basildon is a local government district with borough status in Essex, England. It is named after its largest town, Basildon, where the council is based. The borough also includes the towns of Billericay and Wickford and surrounding rural areas.
Oct 25, 2023 · But normality is also what makes Basildon special, for it is Britain’s most typical place. Basildon is one of 28 new towns created by government planners after the second world war (see...
May 2, 2018 · Endlessly poignant, the documentary New Town Utopia tells the story of one fascinating, widely mocked microcosm of British social history — the Essex settlement of Basildon.
