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South Woodford care home with contamination risks requires improvement
A Redbridge care home has been told it needs to improve following concerns being raised over a number of safeguarding

Basildon sheltered housing re-designated to meet “tsunami of need”
Basildon Council has approved implementing a phased programme in which two supported living schemes will be re-designated for meeting general

Basildon Council leader targets tree vandals
The leader of Basildon Council has called for vandals targeting trees planted to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s jubilee to be

Rayleigh care home with “closed culture” requires improvement
A Rayleigh care home has been told its service requires improvement after it was discovered that a lack of effective

Loughton church granted premises licence despite fears it could be ‘abused’
An Essex council has granted a new premises licence to a church group despite a local councillor’s objection that it

Latest inspection shows some improvement at Basildon Hospital
An Essex hospital has seen a number of improvements in its service provision following the publication of its latest inspection

Loughton Library to be demolished and replaced with flats and National Jazz Archive
Essex County councillors have approved a proposal to demolish the existing Loughton Library building in order to construct a multi-use

Council tax scheme to exclude child benefit as income in Epping Forest district
Epping Forest District Council is to implement a new council tax concession scheme that will see child benefit payments disregarded

Essex has some of highest rates of landlord maladministration in the country
The Housing Ombudsman’s annual complaints review for 2022-23 has revealed that four of the 91 social landlords identified as having

Basildon Council votes to oppose ULEZ expansion
Basildon Council has become the latest of a number of local authorities in the region to oppose ULEZ, including signage