Brentwood Borough Council in Essex was accused by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman of "gatekeeping", by ...

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

RESIDENTS in a south Essex town have less than a year to wait before work starts on building a new Lidl supermarket. Just one ...

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

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 ...