London 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
Read MoreHaifa mayor calls for ‘dialogue’ but leaves Citizen’s questions unanswered
Yona Yahav’s office sent a newspaper article and a statement from an interfaith forum convened under his own auspices
Read MoreCouncil rejects self-storage plans for crumbling Anvil House
Officers criticised an ‘excessively prominent’ top storey, poor-quality cladding and unfinished bat surveys
Read More‘No postcode lottery’: Greens take Hackney childcare case to ministers
Town Hall asks parents for evidence to present to the government, delivering half a manifesto pledge while a promised review of fee rises inherited from Labour remains unfinished
Read MoreWatchdog downgrades Hackney mental health crisis care over safety failures
Two-thirds of crisis staff missed mandatory supervision, and a bathroom CCTV blind spot went unfixed for two years
Read MoreHackney has run out of space to bury its dead
Three London boroughs have no burial space left, and City Hall has been warned the shortage will spread across the capital within 15 years unless the London mayor intervenes
Read MoreTitbits – Je ne regrette rien
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreDalston dad launches app to find pubs with playgrounds
Alastair Duncan says playgrounds signal to children “that this is a space for them too”
Read MoreThe end of ‘the verbal cane’ – Mossbourne’s quiet U-turn on shouting
Teachers at two Mossbourne schools say shouting at pupils came with the job. The federation now vows to do its best to end it
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