The October edition of the Resident contains:

• Lake Meadows wins East of England's UK best park award 2019
• Coach trips
• Local plan and community involvement consultation
• Club focus : gone too soon 

Many readers will remember how they argued they could not make more meaningful changes as the government had given Basildon, along with Castle Point and others, a deadline to submit a Local Plan or face the prospect of intervention. It was claimed that further changes would take extra time, triggering a government intervention, which it was further argued, would be catastrophic

We still have no definite dates for the Examination in Public (EiP) but council officers are suggesting February 2020 as a possibility.