Hundreds of applications made by people who were potentially homeless were dismissed by a council. Brentwood Borough Council ...

Hundreds of cases of potentially homeless people, including domestic abuse victims, were dismissed by a council which has ...

Brentwood Borough Council has been putting ‘unnecessary barriers’ in the way of people accessing its homelessness services, ...

Brentwood Council has apologised for artificially restricting the number of homeless people it helped by imposing unnecessary ...

A council plans to loan up to £100m to developers in a bid to regenerate the area. Brentwood Borough Council said it would loan individual projects between £1m and £20m. The council would ...

The Liberal Democrats - seen here on the local election campaign trail in April - now have as many councillors as the Conservatives at Brentwood Borough Council The Liberal Democrats look set to ...

Brentwood Borough Council accepted failings after an ombudsman said it had been ‘gatekeeping’ its homelessness services (Alamy/PA) Hundreds of cases of potentially homeless people, including ...

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