It is also about using contraception and avoiding sexually transmitted infections STIs - which are on the rise. Making positive choices about contraception and sexual health is important, not just for your physical health but also for your general wellbeing. The Essex Sexual Health Service provides a free, confidential , non-judgemental service available to the people of Essex regardless of sex, age, ethnic origin and sexual orientation. The expertise of staff means everyone can expect appropriate, effective advice and care to benefit their sexual health.
Clinics are run by a team of doctors, nurses and support workers and offer the following services:. Order your kit. To be eligible for the scheme users must be aged 16 to 24 at the date of registration and a resident of Essex excluding Southend. Since March Basildon has a miniature famous white Hollywood sign, reading "Basildon": at five feet tall, the new sign is one-ninth of the height of the Hollywood original.
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Opponents from all parties believe spending could have been directed toward social problems. The former constituency of Basildon was considered a barometer of public opinion in general elections. Nor did the Conservative Party ever hold an absolute majority in the town — its success was due to the split between the SDP and the Labour Party. Boundary changes which came into force from the general election mean that the area is politically represented by two MPs, from the constituencies of Basildon and Billericay and South Basildon and East Thurrock.
Noak Bridge has a parish council. Basildon was built like many new towns with each area being a planned community. These communities are now the local areas of the town:. Basildon has a heavily developed industrial base. During the construction of the New Town, government grants were given to companies to set up their businesses in Basildon.
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In , Costa Coffee opened their new coffee roastery in Basildon. It is said to be Europe's biggest coffee roastery — quadrupling Costa's roasting capacity from 11, tonnes per year to 45, tonnes.
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The two main roads from London to Southend, the A13 and A , pass to the south and north of the town respectively. Both are important commuter trunk roads, allowing easy access to the M25 and the rest of the motorway network. Locally, the A13 gives access to Pitsea and Vange; the A gives access to the town centre and Laindon. Within the town are six main roads which link to and from the A13 and A; all of them include 'mayne' in their names.
Most bus services are provided by First Essex , connecting the town to Billericay, Wickford, and other nearby towns. The project was completed, and was divided into three sections:. Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The logo of the Basildon Academies.
There are several secondary schools in the Basildon district:.
It was announced in January that the college would be closing from September The town's main sporting facility is the Basildon Sporting Village, [42] that opened in and is based in Gloucester Park. The Village consists of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, 8 court sports hall, a climbing wall, athletics track and is home to the South Essex Gymnastics Club. Basildon golf course is based in the Kingswood district of the town. The town centre has a variety of high street stores. As well as shops and coffee houses in the open air East Walk and Town Square, there is the covered Eastgate Shopping Centre which is home to over retailers.
When Eastgate was completed in , it was the largest covered shopping centre in Europe until the opening of the Metro Centre. Further shopping facilities in the town can be found at Westgate Shopping Park, while there is a pavement market selling fresh fruit and vegetables as well as household goods, which in moved to a new location in St. Martins Square. Outside of the town centre there are retail parks at Pipps Hill and Mayflower on the A, while there are smaller shopping centres in Laindon and Pitsea, which is home to a famous market that opened in the s.
There are several smaller shopping areas located in each of the communities. Festival Leisure Park is a trading leisure park located in the north of Basildon and owned by Aviva.
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The name originated from a proposed Casino development on the site. The site was previously home to the Aquatels park which hosted a zoo, ski slope and golf range that opened in , [49] which was replaced in by a conference venue called the Festival Hall [50] [51] which was home to the MFI World Matchplay darts championship. A wakeboarding complex also opened in , attracting both professionals and amateurs alike [53].
The Arts Centre was the first theatre in Basildon, opening in in a temporary facility behind the then temporary council offices, on the site of the current Westgate shopping park. This was renamed 'The Towngate Theatre and Arts Centre' in , before being replaced by a new purpose built theatre as part of the new Basildon Centre, on the opposite side for the former Towngate Road. In , the culture and history of the town was documented by the newly re-opened Towngate Theatre, when it commissioned a community play from Arnold Wesker for the town's 40th anniversary.
The potted history that Wesker called "Boerthel's Hill" [55] was acted out by a members of the community recording a fascinating history of London's East Enders, who were the first Basildon residents. Basildon currently has one cinema, Cineworld , which is located at the Festival Leisure Park. This changed hands several times becoming a Cannon and a Robins cinema before closing in In , planning permission was granted for a new ten screen Empire cinema, along with new restaurants on the site of Freedom House in Basildon town centre, [61] with demolition of the current buildings on site starting in Basildon Central Library is now based in the Basildon Centre [63] since , but had previously been in prefabs next to the temporary council offices on Fodderwick.
Basildon was designed with large amounts of green spaces with Gloucester Park dominating the centre of Basildon.
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Even though Basildon is a new town, there are still traces of its historical past visible. Dry Street is a perfect example of old Basildon, as it is an undeveloped country lane that runs through One Tree Hill and Langdon Hill Country Parks and is home to several listed properties. Other than St Martin's Church, most of the historical parish churches still exist.
St Michael's at Pitsea is said to be 13th century, but was rebuilt in [80] and now only its Bell Tower remains on Pitsea Mount. Nevendon Hall was built in and is Grade II listed. One notable building is Little Coopers Farmhouse, which was originally located in Takeley. It was designated a Grade II building in In the late s, due to redevelopment, the whole structure was dismantled and re-built at the Wat Tyler Country Park. On the west side of town, the Dunton Plotlands area was occupied by small rural dwellings in the mid twentieth century. Today, it forms Langdon Nature Reserve.
In , a National Lottery funded heritage trail was started to highlight the s architecture. Basildon has its own community radio station, which is aimed towards the residents of Basildon, East Thurrock and its surrounding areas called Gateway Basildon Development Corporation had installed a Cable Television service into many of its home, called Rediffusion , but this service stopped during the s.
The service was replaced by United Artists Cable which were based in the town; this is now Virgin Media , although the customer service operation closed in the s. The town has been home to The Yellow Advertiser since Basildon had a great influence on the s music scene with bands Depeche Mode and Yazoo , and later by Alison Moyet in her solo career and Vince Clarke in his role with Erasure.
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Martin's Church in Basildon town centre is a modern structure. The church was consecrated in by the Bishop of Chelmsford. Although there are a number of tall buildings in central Basildon, there are also many newly constructed buildings closer to the 'Basildon Enterprise Corridor' situated in North Basildon. The largest structure in the new town's town centre is Brooke House, a story residential tower block that fronts the west side of the town centre's East Square.
The building was chosen to have a residential function, as opposed to commercial office space, to retain life in the town centre after the shops had closed. Shops were positioned to the rear of the building, with Brooke House acting as a covered forecourt. It was conceived as a structure to define Basildon's urban status and to act as marker to identify the town centre's location within a largely low-rise settlement set in a flat landscape.
The building was given Grade II listing in East of Brooke House is East Square, a sunken open-air public plaza accessed from Brooke House by a monumental staircase and a curved ramp which was listed in as Grade II. Formerly on the wall of Freedom House is the oldest piece of public sculpture in the new town: installed in , it is a wire and aluminium relief by the sculptor A. Poole titled "Man Aspires".