Shops at the Bull Parade neighbourhood centre at Clay Hill Road, Vange begin opening. The 8 shop units comprising odd numbers 453 to 467 Clay Hill Road were built by Basildon Development Corporation to serve the ongoing housing developments in the Vange area. Work commenced on the single storey block of 7 units and one detached to the rear of the main development the previous year on a site adjacent to the Bull public house, which had been rebuilt on a new site in 1961. Among the first to open were Seely butchers at No. 459, Beaumont's newsagent at No. 461 and R.L. Statham greengrocer and fruiterer at No. 457. The new shops replaced a small row of 5 shops in the former Bull Road (now Clay Hill Road) which had previously served the area from at least the 1940s.

Ghyllgrove Club in Butneys, Ghyllgrove opens. The new community hall, described at the time as a common room, was built in conjunction with a linked housing scheme comprising a two storey block of flats. Ghyllgrove Tenants Association, led by chairman Dr. E.A. Barnett, who also practiced in the area, had long campaigned for such a building to serve the growing community. It later took on the name Barnett Centre in recognition of Dr. Barnett's contribution to the community. Ghyllgrove Community Association, essentially the same association with a small change to their name, are still responsible for the day-to-day running, which includes live entertainment on the clubs stage throughout the year.

The number of councillors elected to serve on Basildon Council is increased from 28 to 29. (County of Essex (Basildon Urban District - Number of Councillors) Order, 1963). The additional councillor - when elected - will represent the Central Ward. The proposal was carried at a council meeting held on 2nd August, 1962.

Cranes Farm Road pedestrian bridge opened. The bridge linking Honeypot Lane in Ghyllgrove to the Cranes Farm Road cycle path routes was built primarily for cyclists working at either of the two industrial estates. It was later removed and replaced with a subway, which still exists today.

Bull Road, Vange and the southern section of Timberlog Lane between Basildon Bridge (Gales Corner) and the junction with High Road/London Road, Vange is renamed Clay Hill Road. Clay Hill Road prior to the change had ended at the junction with Church Road. The move was not without controversy as it necessitated changes to the existing numbering sequence in Clay Hill Road which was not only reversed but also changed from odds to even.

Basildon Boys Club founded. The clubs' headquarters in Fairview Road was built at a cost of £10,000 and formally opened by the local MP. Edward Gardner, QC., on 7th January 1964. Table tennis, billiards and boxing equipment were some of the activities available at the new hall which was also used by the Basildon Drum and Trumpet Corps for their rehearsals. The club is still active though now based at Barleylands where football has become their predominant activity.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, (H.M.S.O.) in The Gore, Basildon opened. The new offices and block was constructed by Richard Costain Ltd. Prior to opening, the Stationery Offices and Branch Stores was based in London at Shepherdess Walk, City Road, N.1, though from early 1957 a small 'nursery' office had operated at 45 Bowlers Croft, off Honywood Road on the No.1 Nevendon Industrial Estate. Around 1987 the office relocated, though still within Basildon, to Luckyn Lane on the Pipps Hill industrial estate. The Gore address was later renamed Regent House and became home to Basildon Jobcentre, Unemployment Benefit and a government H.M. Customs and Excise (H.M.C.E.) department until 2016. Soon after this plans to convert the building to one and two bedroomed residential flats received Council approval and work on its conversion began in late 2017. The first tenants moved in during 2019.

The Owl and Pussycat public house in Clay Hill Road opened. The new public house and off licence was built alongside the neighbourhood centre and serves the Kingswood area of Basildon. In the 1980s it was renamed Lears after the English artist, author and poet Edward Lear (12/05/1812 – 29/01/1888) who in 1871 published a nonsense poem called The Owl and the Pussycat from whose title the pubs original name derives. The change though was short-lived and the pub reverted back to its original name.

The Basildon Players amateur dramatics group formed. Still active today, their roots can be traced back to the Langdon Players. Founder member Jack Lockheart later became chairman in 1970.

The first Essex County Council run Day Nursery opened. Situated behind the main Fryerns shopping centre off Church Road, the new nursery building cost £25,000 and has places for up to 50 children under the age of five, supervised by 14 members of staff.

7th January

Great Oaks Service Station in Great Oaks, Basildon opened. The new petrol filling station, vehicle service centre and car showroom was operated by Holmes & Smith as a Basildon division of the main business based at London Road, Southend-on-Sea. The company, which was also a main dealer to the Rootes Group (Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam) and later Chrysler organisation, would remain at Great Oaks until the 1980s. They also operated a second garage at Whitmore Way offering similar facilities.

February

Roundacre Service Station in Nether Mayne, Basildon completed. The new petrol filling station, vehicle service centre and car showroom was initially run by Southend Motor and Aero Company who sold second hand cars and new Austin and other B.M.C. models. It was later taken over by Normand Garages Ltd. who were a main dealer of Vauxhall / Bedford models. In the 1980s the workshops and car showrooms were demolished to create a larger forecourt which now includes a car wash and a larger payment kiosk which doubles as a food convenience store. It is now one of only two petrol stations in the main town centre area and run by BP.

9th March

Mundy House, residential care home for the aged and infirm, at Church Road, Fryerns is officially opened. The Essex County Council run retirement home is set in two acres of extensive grounds and has accommodation for around sixty people. It took in its first residents in 1962 and has a permanent on-site warden. Government Health Minister, Enoch Powell, MP., was the guest of honour at the opening ceremony. It is named after Edgar Arthur Mundy who lived at Hadleigh and served for years as an Essex County Councillor and County Alderman.

23rd May

Holy Trinity Catholic Church Hall at Long Lynderswood, Lee Chapel North, Basildon opened. The new flat-roofed building, for use as a temporary church with seating for 300 and built at a cost of around £14,000, is situated on the fringe of Lee Chapel North adjacent to Long Lynderswood. The Bishop of Brentwood, Bernard Patrick Wall officiated the dedication service and the Very Rev. Canon Michael John Mckenna took the first Mass service. A regular Sunday service began in May, having previously been held at Kingswood Community Hall in Clay Hill Road. Internally the building had an upper balcony on one side providing additional space for extra seating when needed and dividing shutters, which separated the altar enabling activities beyond church services. The building was in use through to 1972 when a new church hall was built in nearby Wickhay. In 1980, and on the same Wickhay site, a new church and presbytery was completed and now called the Most Holy Trinity. The former church hall at Roundacre remained unused for a number of years and suffered neglect and vandalism and possible demolition before being taken over by Basildon Council and renamed Roundacre Youth House. During this time the interior was converted for use as an entertainment venue with a two-level stage and licensed bar where live bands, stage productions, youth disco's and various other activities were regularly held. It closed during the 2010s, having become S.P.A.C.E. for young people, and was demolished during October 2017 when the site was acquired by Basildon Council as a potential site for a residential block of flats subject to planning approval. This was later granted and a block with associated parking spaces called Maplewood Court was then constructed.

29th May

Basildon Swimming Club founded. Basildon Sports Council initiated an inaugural public meeting at Timberlog County Secondary School where An Acting Committee was formed. Gwyn Thomas was appointed Acting Chairman and membership, although small on the night within three weeks and further public meetings had risen to over a hundred. The sports council also gifted the club with £5 to assist with initial administrative expenses. Training in the early years was held at Barstable Grammar School and from 1968 the club were permanently based at Gloucester Park swimming pool until it closed in 2011. In 2010 they amalgamated with another Basildon swimming club called Phoenix to become Basildon & Phoenix Swimming Club. The club is now based at the Basildon Sporting Village in Gloucester Park, Basildon.

29th June

Manor Junior School swimming pool opened. The new pool which was built at a cost of £1,300 has a depth of 3ft and was many years in the planning. 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist swimmer Elizabeth (Liz) Long was the special guest invited to perform the opening ceremony.

2nd July

Craylands County Senior School swimming pool opened. The open-air pool, situated in the quadrangle, was opened by the Headmaster Mr. Edward Haynes. It still appeared to be in use in the late 1970s but at the time of the schools' closure had been filled in.

3rd July

Basildon town centre Crown Post Office in East Square opened. The new purpose built building cost around £190,000 and was formally opened by the Assistant Postmaster General, Raymond Llewellyn Mawby, MP. The main building also initially housed Inland Revenue on three of its five floors. A temporary post office, located in an East Square shop unit, had prior to opening been in use from about 1960. The main Crown post office in High Road, Laindon had been Basildon Head Post Office from 1954 and on opening reverted back to its original Laindon name.

6th July

South Essex Motors service station opens in Cherrydown, Basildon. The Ford main dealer complex includes an Esso petrol station, car showroom, workshops and parts department. The dealership was later renamed Essex Ford. In the late 1960s a seven storey office block was added to the site. This new building remained unoccupied for many years until being given the name Essex House, and was home to among others Social Services, before being demolished in the late 1990s.

7th September

Bowers United's new football ground at Gun Meadow, Bowers Gifford officially opened. The club, which was founded in 1946, had been forced to move from their previous home to the rear of the Railway Hotel, Pitsea, which was wanted by the development corporation for a town centre regeneration scheme. The move was announced the previous year and had involved a financial settlement of £1,000 to secure the location and pay for facilities. The club's President Roger Howard, son of the late Pitsea dairy farmer and landowner Harold Howard, was the special guest to cut the ribbon, after which a special match against a Basildon Football League XI took place, which Bowers went on to win 2-1.

10th September

Nicholas County Secondary School in Leinster Road, Laindon opened. First Headmaster appointed is Mr John Goodier. An indoor swimming pool was a later addition, which opened on 1st October 1968, as was a long rectangular three story block, completed in the late 1960s. The school would survive in name to August 1998. After an extensive refurbishment programme the school reopened in September 2000 as the James Hornsby High School.

26th September

The Castle Mayne public house opened. The new pub, sited at The Knares in Lee Chapel South, was designed by noted architect Ernest Brander Musman of Musman and Cousens. Its name originates from a crenallated farm house, occupied and in use as a dairy farm until the 1950s by Mrs. Mary Ellen Chattaway, that once stood close by. The opening ceremony was attended by members of the Whitbread Brewery Co. and the General Manager of Basildon Development Corporation, Charles Boniface, who unfurled a Union Jack to reveal the pub's forecourt sign. The brewery company chose the name from a number of suggestions submitted by Tom O'Connor, senior engineer of the development corporation. Incorporated within the building was an off-licence. The Lounge bar has a stage which regularly features live entertainment throughout the year.

October

Shops at the Lee Chapel North neighbourhood centre at Ballards Walk completed. The 10 shop units comprising odd numbers 29 to 47 Ballards Walk were built by Basildon development Corporation to serve the then ongoing housing developments within the area. Work began on the 10 units, 9 of which are in a single row and the other being detached on a side approach walkway, earlier in the year with the first shops opening in November followed by others in December. Among the first to open were Peters Hair Fashions at No.29, Harrington the Butcher at No.35, a branch of Forbuoys newsagents at No.39 and Burles hardware and sub-post office at No.43. Wally Broughall shoe repairer was the first to occupy the detached shop at No. 47, which in the 1980s became Adam's Fish Bar.

December

Ghyllgrove Community Centre at Butneys, Basildon completed. Situated adjacent to the shops, the centre was provided by Basildon Development Corporation as a social centre for the new community, recently established at Ghyllgrove. The licensed building was later named the Barnet Centre and regularly features live entertainment and other social activities.

2nd December

Basildon Police Station becomes operational. Located adjacent to Basildon town centre in Great Oaks, the rectangular three-storey block was built at a cost of £162,819 by construction company Richard Costain. Prior to its opening a small sub-station opened in February 1958 in a bungalow at Church Road, Basildon followed by a wooden temporary single storey station, constructed in 1961 adjacent to the present site in Great Oaks. In 1967 all operations were centralised at Great Oaks following the closure of Laindon and Pitsea's stations. In 1984 a mobile police station was placed in Town Square adjacent to Market Pavement. It was later moved to the East Square steps where it remained until around 2007.