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

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

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 ...

They tell us they want change and plan to go to borough council as a group. “We just want them to work with us. Just don’t give us a ticket and that’s too bad,” Toal said. Brentwood’s ...

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 ...

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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