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, ...

The Conservatives have lost control of Brentwood Borough Council for the first time in eight years. It was the first leadership change to be declared in England in this year's local elections.

Brentwood Borough Council said the number of incidents reported each year had more than doubled since 2021. The authority's Lib Dem leader, Barry Aspinell, said the town's proximity to the M25 and ...

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 ...