A row over council spending has broken out between a county council and a borough authority that is seeking unitary status.
The leader of Basildon BC’s Labour administration, Cllr Gavin Callaghan, wrote to his Conservative counterpart at Essex CC raising ‘serious concerns’ that the borough was ‘not being prioritised’.
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