A square in Basildon town centre could be renamed after Queen Elizabeth II.

Basildon Borough Council will ask permission from Buckingham Palace to rename East Square in the town centre after the late Queen.

Councillors voted for two motions submitted by Cllr Craig Rimmer at a meeting, which also included plans to replicate some of the borough's celebrations for the platinum jubilee during King Charles III's coronation next year.

Cllr Rimmer said he had "never seen the borough so together" during the platinum jubilee and that the period of mourning after the Queen's death was "extremely moving."

The Queen with Cannon Lionel Eebber at the opening of Basildon's Bell Tower in 1999.

The council will also set up set up a cross-party working group to plan for the coronation celebrations, set to take place in May 2023.

Cllr Andrew Schrader, who will chair the group, said: "Whereas some countries have written constitutions, scrawled on crumbling bits of parchment, our constitution is a living, breathing institution, personified in a human being."

In May Basildon Council unveiled a tribute to the Queen to mark her Jubilee in the adjacent Town Square.