Ombudsman faults Hackney over disabled man’s care delays
Council pays £2,500 compensation over 18-month supported living delay
Read MoreEmpty Stoke Newington Town Hall costs council £850,000 a year
Grade II-listed landmark has stood empty for seven years, with asbestos and a hidden coal bunker delaying repairs
Read MoreCouncil delays left autistic boy without teaching for months
Watchdog orders Town Hall to pay £4,500 to the family for causing ‘avoidable distress’
Read MoreTitbits – Locks, frocks and five-year plans
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreCouncil hires Wates to finish stalled Britannia regeneration
Council officers used delegated powers to move the contract to a parent company that later folded
Read MoreLabour attacks Green record as Garbett marks 100 days
Labour has used the Green administration’s 100-day mark to accuse it of neglecting repairs, buses and nursery fees. The mayor’s office calls the charge sheet an ‘inaccurate shopping list’
Read MoreSelf-swab cervical screening now offered at every Hackney GP surgery
Rollout to all 1,100 practices in the capital is aimed at women six months or more overdue, who can now take their own sample without an internal examination
Read MorePlans submitted for 23-storey ‘co-living’ high rise in Homerton
A ‘co-living’ high-rise block could be coming to Hackney under plans to knock down and redevelop abandoned garages in Homerton
Read MoreLondon Mayor warned: retrofit the capital’s overheating homes faster
Three-quarters of the capital’s social housing stock is judged at high risk of overheating
Read MoreGreens and Labour trade blows over London Fields paddling pool
Cabinet member Jacob Cable says the pool ‘sat closed and derelict’ under Labour, as Cllr Anntoinette Bramble accuses the new administration of offering ‘kind platitudes’ instead of a firm commitment
Read MoreResidents fight Town Hall plan to build on Hoxton community garden
Campaigners say the 16-year-old kitchen garden on St John’s Estate cannot be moved, as Hackney Council proposes 32 social rent homes on the site
Read MoreHoxton playgrounds locked for years as Labour councillor launches campaign to reopen them
Repairs are underway at one Wenlock Barn play area. The other needs more than a routine fix — and the council has set no timetable for it
Read More‘More like 20 years’: Zoë Garbett on 100 days in office
From a £53m funding gap to a fight over single-sex spaces, Hackney’s first Green mayor on rearranging the furniture and setting a new tone at the Town Hall
Read MoreCouncil must keep tenants cool under new heat law
City Hall says failing to adapt could cost London up to £36bn a year by the 2050s
Read MoreRecord grades across Hackney as academies report best-ever GCSE results
Provisional figures put the borough above emerging national and London averages, the Town Hall says
Read MoreSir Patrick Vernon demands Cambridge culture review after Arday vigil
Sir Patrick Vernon, a former Hackney councillor, says equality law failed the professor and press regulation must follow
Read MoreMan charged with arson after fires started in London Fields
Police and fire crews were called to the park shortly after 5am on Saturday
Read MoreBoy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes
Police divers recovered the child after a six-hour search on the first day of a heat-health alert that warned of a rising risk of drowning
Read MoreCouncillors rail against cuts to ‘one of London’s busiest’ bus routes
Politicians from across north London are lobbying against Transport for London (TfL) plans to change several bus routes travelling through a Tube network dead zone
Read MoreHackney sixth-formers celebrate results as three head to Oxbridge
Mossbourne sends students to Oxford and Cambridge, while a City Academy student juggled A-levels with international BMX
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