Police were called to Pitsea View Road, Crays Hill, on Monday evening following concerns the occupants of a property had not been seen for several days.
Officers found the bodies of 37-year-old Mark Tyler and a woman, thought to be his 79-year-old mother Maureen, in Pitsea View Road in Crays Hill on Monday.
Mr McPherson-Davies, a former chairman of the Ramsden Crays Parish Council, believed it would take some time before children from the settled community started to return to the school.