BASILDON Council will have to pay up to £120,000 for an archaeological dig on the site of a controversial housing development.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed the Tory administration told Redrow Homes, which is building 135 properties on playing fields off Ballards Walk, Laindon, the land “was not considered to be of any archaeological significance”.

Reported by The Basildon Echo. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.