G.P.O. (General Post Office) purpose built automatic telephone exchange at Long Riding, Basildon opened. On opening the exchange handled 3,500 lines which had increased to 10,000 by 1972. The three-storey building was later refurbished and an additional storey was added around 1980. The new exchange was built as an addition to the manual exchange at Winstanley Way, Basildon which employed telephonists for all directory enquiries, service faults and emergency service calls.

Parker Morris Standards of minimal living space in new build homes within all United Kingdom 'New Towns' becomes mandatory. This was extended in 1969 to include council housing.

Properties on the Laindon I, II and III housing development completed. The new 862 home estate of rented accommodation comprised of 2, 3, and 4 bedroomed houses and flats, was the first to be constructed in Laindon by Basildon Development Corporation. Work on the construction began in October 1964 on land cleared of pre-new town dwellings, some of which were below the housing standard. The properties were designed by Basildon Development Corporation's own Department of Architecture and Planning headed by Anthony B. Davies. The were built from a new building material developed in Sweden called 'Siporex' and had already been trialled on a small 18 home estate at Lee Chapel North. The main contractor was Richard Costain whose Costain Concrete Company under licence pre-cast the sections at its cement works in Scotland before transportation to Laindon to be assembled on-site. The properties comprise Danacre, Northey, Rising Grove and Spurriers. The properties proved problematic over time with costly structural repairs leading to the entire estate - with the exception of 4 blocks of conventional built flats - being demolished in the mid 1990s and replaced with conventional housing.

6th February

Bader House in Witchards, Kingswood opened. This special occupational day centre for the physically handicapped was named after Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, a disabled World War Two R.A.F. fighter pilot. Council Chairman Arthur Baron Burn officiated at the opening ceremony.

14th February

The revised 1965 Basildon Development Corporation Master Plan public inquiry begins. This inquiry held at Laindon Community Centre, Aston Road lasted 9 days. It was held by T.F. Thomson, Esq., L.R.I.B.A., Dist.T.P., M.T.PL, F.I.L.A., a Department of the Environment Inspector.

5th June

British Rail withdraws the goods service from Laindon Station. A goods yard had existed at the station since the line opened serving a number of local businesses with coal and building materials. Following closure most of the track in the sidings was lifted though the original goods shed remained, albeit in derelict condition, until the late 1980s when a permanent car park was created wiping away all traces of the former goods yard.

8th June

Sir John Ruggles-Brise, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, cuts the first sod at the Nether Mayne site planned for Basildon Hospital. Plans for a hospital had been at the discussion stage for a number of years as the town's growth had put additional strain on existing services at Orsett and St. Andrew's at Billericay. Although its location had been resolved since the 1950s its size and costing was subject to amendments which held up its construction, which was eventually completed in 1973.

22nd June

Basildon Golf Course off Clay Hill Lane in Kingswood is officially opened. Chairman of both the council and the development corporation, Arthur Baron Burn and Sir John Macpherson respectively were in attendance. The 164 acre par-72 municipal course is also home to the privately run Basildon Golf Club. The course had actually opened on 10th May with Chairman of Basildon Council, Cllr. Arthur Baron Burn, making the first drive, and Sir Richard Bonallack taking part in the first game. Much of the land had been acquired by the development corporation who purchased farmland previously owned by Essex County Council.

August

Basildon junior football club Armada Sports renamed Basildon United. First game is a pre-season friendly on August 19th against Bowers United at The Gun ground in London Road, Bowers Gifford. They joined the Grays & Thurrock Thames-side Combination league followed by the Greater London league for season 1968/69. Home matches until 1970, when United acquired their own ground at Gardiners Close, were played at Gloucester Park Bowl. Armada Sports, whose nickname was the Pirates, had formed earlier in 1963.

1st September

Chowdhary County Junior School in Markhams Chase, Laindon opened. Mr. Peter Jones is appointed as the schools first Headmaster. In 1979 the school became a primary after merging with the infant school but closed in 1996 following a gradual fall in pupil numbers.

18th September

The George Hurd Day Centre in Fauners, Kingswood, Basildon opened. The new purpose built centre, which cost £40,000, was built and eventually run by Basildon Council. Services provided include subsidised hot meals and a wide range of social and recreational activities for the district's senior citizen's. The centre is named after the former Vange resident and Labour councillor George Hurd (d.1966 aged 78), who held a seat in Pitsea from 1963 to 1966 and had been chairman of Vange & Pitsea Old People's Welfare Committee. In 2008 the centre was rebuilt in Audley Way off Ghyllgrove.

12th October

Ford Motor Company open a Research & Engineering Centre on 268 acres of land at Dunton. Costing over £10 million to complete, Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, as special guest of honour, carried out the opening duties. The new centre, built where Southfields Farm once stood, even has its own test track facility. It brought together some 2,500 engineers and technicians who had previously worked at scattered locations. On 24th July, 2007 H.R.H. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, was guest of honour at a ceremony to mark 40 years of the centre.

25th October

Kingswood Squash Club at Clay Hill Lane, Kingswood opens. Government Minister for Sport, Denis Howell, carried out the opening ceremony in the new £60,000 building which was designed by Ronald Cox, A.R.I.B.A. A.W. Hardy & Co. Ltd. of 714 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea were the main contractors involved in the construction. The club is now known as Club Kingswood and offers a variety of health and fitness activities from squash to swimming.

November

The General Post Office (GPO) expand Basildon area code telephone numbers to include Laindon and Langdon Hills. A new telephone exchange in Northumberland Avenue becomes operational and the Laindon exchange in High Road (vehicle access from Vowler Road) Langdon Hills is closed and later demolished.

4th November

Basildon Round Table hold their 3rd annual firework fiesta at Laindon Link, Lee Chapel North. The event began at 6.45 p.m. when the fire, which included a large 7 ft. replica of a dalek, was lit by Basildon Council Chairman, Cllr. Arthur Baron Burn J.P. The display followed at 7:15 p.m.

8th November

Nether Mayne pedestrian footbridge centre section positioned into place. The steel bridge linking Kingswood with Lee Chapel South had its main centre section lifted into place by a large crane causing the road to be temporarily closed to traffic. The whole structure, which cost £10,000, was eventually completed and open to pedestrians in December and remains in use to this day.

13th November

Laindon Police Station in Victoria Road and Pitsea Police Station in Rectory Road both close with all operations now centralised at Great Oaks in Basildon. The closures were initially experimental but proved permanent and the Laindon building was later demolished in 1970 when Victoria Road was shortened and closed off to accommodate a new roundabout at its former the junction with St. Nicholas Lane. The Pitsea building was also later demolished and replaced with police houses, though years later a new police station opened on the same site.

December

Two 10 & 8 storey tower blocks in Laindon named Royal Court opened by Basildon Urban District Council. The two blocks, which stand off Brook Mead, were originally conceived as three blocks; the plan later being revised to provide 18 three bedroomed flats and 36 two bedroomed flats, with the smaller block having 14 three bedroomed and 28 two bedroomed flats. An enclosed play area and underground garages were also part of the development. Later a shop opened (Dunnies) and the flats become known as Block A and B. Basildon Council also established a Laindon/Lee Chapel North area office; active in 1991 and probably earlier. In the late 2000s following years of antisocial behaviour and general bad feeling towards the blocks a new development scheme to replace the two blocks with new housing was given the go ahead and by December 2010 the last residents of Royal Court had vacated. Demolition, though initially set for mid 2011, finally began in October, 2011 with both towers removed from the skyline by December.

December

Link, Basildon District Council's free quarterly information newspaper begins distribution. The first edition is delivered to around 37,000 homes in the district. It was soon produced every month but cuts in the 1980s reduced this to 9 editions over the year by which time circulation had increased to 65,000 homes. In the 1990s Link was replaced with the District Diary which in December 2010 became the Borough Diary reflecting the council's new status as a borough.

29th December

Basildon Development Corporation's revised Master Plan to increase the population within the designated area receives Government approval from Anthony Greenwood, MP, Minister at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The corporation had proposed an increase from 106,000 to 140,000 which the Minister accepted in principle with the deletion of two proposed housing developments at Hawkesbury and Kingston Ridge, reducing the total by 6,600.