HOUSING

Brent Council will use the “resources and expertise” of a housing association to support its approach to housebuilding over the next five years.

Brent’s only law centre offering residents free legal help with casework and representation has closed.

A rogue landlord must pay back £190,000 in rent he collected from illegal flats in Wembley.

Locals and historians have launched a campaign to prevent the demolition of a listed 19th century villa in Stonebridge.

Plans to build more than 200 new homes as part of South Kilburn’s major regeneration project were approved despite claims people are being priced out by such schemes.

Park Royal and Old Oak Common chiefs have welcomed new station designs from HS2 which signal a green light to their own regeneration plans.

Communities gathered in Wembley Park to celebrate 100 years of council homes at an event hosted by Brent Council in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Neighbours in and around Welsh Harp are urging Barnet Council to refuse an application to build housing on nearby Metropolitan Open Land.

Young people living on St Raphael’s Estate have been invited to a free music event in Wembley Park where they’ll have a chance to have their say on regeneration plans for where they live.

Mayor of Brent Councillor Ernest Ezeajughi was on hand to congratulate the first cohort of trainees who have passed a new Construct a Career programme.

Council chiefs want you to have a say on how cash from developers should be spent.

A Kilburn man with a severe dust allergy has accepted emergency accommodation in Buckinghamshire after battling with council staff who told him his unfinished flat was “habitable”.

The regeneration plans around Old Oak and Park Royal have been reset, planning chiefs told London Assembly members during a budget committee grilling.

A rogue landlord who was slapped with a £15,000 fine for cramming 16 people into his three-bed property in Dollis Hill says he has turned over a new leaf.

Chiefs overseeing the regeneration of Old Oak and Park Royal are being urged to release confidential documents after “surprising” London Assembly members with the decision not to request £250million in government funding to kick-start the project.

The UK’s largest secondhand car dealership has been saved after local authority developers abandoned plans to use its land for thousands of homes.

Green space in Brent is not under threat say the council as the deadline to comment on the borough’s Local Plan looms.

“Inspirational” Astrid Aurell is on a mission to raise more than £5,000 to buy Christmas presents for children living in temporary accommodation.

Campaigners in Willesden Green have accused the council of “dithering” after losing a seven-year-battle to save their much-loved pub

A Kensal Green charity for dogs, cats and communities has joined forces with Crisis to help pets and their owners affected by homelessness.

A government inspector has called last orders on a valued pub in Willesden Green that will now be demolished to provide housing.

Tenants and leaseholders in Brondesbury attended a meeting to demand answers over claims of inadequate repair work, anti-social behaviour and asbestos on their estates.

Pupils from a Willesden primary school made special bags which they filled and donated to the homeless in Brent.

Private rent in Brent now costs £3,600 more a year than what people were paying in 2012, according to new figures.

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £7,000 for ignoring Brent’s selective licensing laws.