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

Brentwood residents have less than a year to wait before work starts on building a new Lidl supermarket. Just one large ...

Brentwood Borough Council is facing a funding gap of £2.3m in the next three to four years An Essex council is facing a funding gap of £2.3m by 2024/25. Brentwood Borough Council expects 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 ...

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 ...

Brentwood Borough Council in Essex was accused by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman of "gatekeeping", by restricting access to its homelessness services. The local authority was found ...

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