Town Hall set to spend £10m buying up ex-council properties to help with housing crisis
Councillors to vote on whether to release cash for purchase of 25 former right-to-buy homes
Read MoreTown Hall sets out 20-year vision for Hackney’s parks and green spaces
Bold plans include a network of green infrastructure linking various parts of the borough, though council faces calls to ‘protect existing biodiversity’ too
Read MorePlight of local music venues brought into focus for charity photography book
Alex Amorós spent the November lockdown capturing the borough’s beloved stomping grounds, some of which are in a fight for survival
Read MoreTown Hall ‘poised’ to close schools in response to falling pupil numbers
Primary schools in jeopardy as demand for reception places continues to drop
Read MoreStaff at Hackney doctors’ surgery named ‘GP Team of the Year’
Richmond Road Medical Centre in Dalston recognised at the prestigious National General Medical Practice Awards for fourth year running
Read MoreThousands of laptops still needed for Hackney home learners, says Deputy Mayor
Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, the borough’s education boss, on the digital divide, exam grading, and free school meals
Read MoreTwo rapid testing sites for people without Covid symptoms open in Hackney
The centres in Dalston and Stoke Newington are aimed at people who cannot work or volunteer from home
Read MoreBreakin’ Convention – Social DisDancing, Sadler’s Wells, stage review: ‘A celebration of local culture and resilience’
This condensed version of the annual hip-hop festival, performed in December before restrictions tightened, has ‘an overarching message of hope’
Read MoreA third of Hackney residents may have had coronavirus, according to Public Health England
Watchdog gives clearest picture yet of Covid’s spread across the borough, as Homerton Hospital is stretched to the limit
Read MoreHomecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’
The Stoke Newington-based author explores, in ‘lyrical prose’, the ‘tangle of contemporary identity’
Read MoreCouncil’s housing waiting list plans will ‘make terrible situation worse’, warn campaigners
Morning Lane People’s Space calls on Town Hall to ‘contest government’s limits, not concede to them’
Read MoreAnti-LTN campaign group issues formal legal challenge to Hackney Council
Horrendous Hackney Road Closures applies for judicial review over what it claims were ‘unlawful’ consultation and assessment failures
Read MorePrecious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’
The Stoke Newington author’s first novel is a ‘gloriously dark parable of envy between generations’
Read MoreHappy the Man by Gareth Evans
The local poet pays tribute to the Happy Man Tree, which was felled earlier this month
Read MoreLTNs: ‘The policy is environmentally unjust’
Local resident Clair Battaglino on her experience of the new traffic measures, and why she wants to see them ‘halted and reversed’
Read MoreSandford Court residents celebrate as Covid test centre relocated
The site, which provoked multiple complaints from locals, has moved to a recently vacated bus garage
Read MoreHackney energy firm to help deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen-powered train
Arcola Energy, based in Dalston, tasked with developing ‘potential game-changer’ in country’s ambition for zero-emissions rail travel
Read MoreCouncil chief executive announces retirement after 13 years in the job
Hackney Mayor pays tribute to Tim Shields, who will step aside on 31 May
Read More‘It struck fear into us’: Happy Man Tree campaigners slam Town Hall for ‘overreach’ in court injunction
Following the tree’s felling earlier this month, locals speak out about their ‘humiliating treatment’
Read More‘Slap in the face’: Anti-lockdown posters at local Wetherspoons spark outrage
Baxter’s Court pub removes material following condemnation from council leaders and ‘infuriated’ health workers
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