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Council tenants have been moved out of a town centre tower block after a mains water leak flooded the basement. Brooke House, in Basildon Town Centre experienced the flooding on Friday July 18, with ...

Government inspectors say they have found "very serious failings" in the way a council in Essex operates its social housing. The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) gave Basildon Borough Council a C4 ...

Can Nigel Farage win the homeland of Thatcherism? By Laura Beveridge Across from Brooke House – the brutalist tower that dominates Basildon’s concrete-covered town centre – stands one of the town’s ...

Basildon Borough Council's social housing management - which includes Brooke House in the town centre - was criticised at length Government inspectors say they have found "very serious failings" in ...