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Posts by Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Dunsmure Road businesses speak out against plan for School Streets

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 22 January 2021 at 20:49

Critics of council initiative designed to improve air quality for pupils claim proposals are ‘in essence a two-hour closure’ of their shops

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Dispute over staff cuts at two primary schools continues with more unions likely to strike

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 22 January 2021 at 20:21

Thirty-one jobs understood to be at risk at Colvestone and Thomas Fairchild primary schools

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Council apologises to resident left with broken front door for four years

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 22 January 2021 at 20:02

Troy Goldie, 27, who has paranoid schizophrenia, wins civil case after ‘hellish’ experience

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‘No Year 7 exclusions’: Town Hall pilot aims to support at-risk pupils

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 January 2021 at 20:12

Trial focused on easing the transition from primary to secondary school to be rolled out this year

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Empty Hoxton car park to be transformed into 73 homes

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 January 2021 at 19:45

Twenty-eight properties will be for social rent in latest project for Town Hall’s housing supply programme

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Town Hall set to spend £10m buying up ex-council properties to help with housing crisis

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 20:24

Councillors to vote on whether to release cash for purchase of 25 former right-to-buy homes

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Town Hall sets out 20-year vision for Hackney’s parks and green spaces

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 19:55
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Bold plans include a network of green infrastructure linking various parts of the borough, though council faces calls to ‘protect existing biodiversity’ too

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Town Hall ‘poised’ to close schools in response to falling pupil numbers

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 19 January 2021 at 18:52

Primary schools in jeopardy as demand for reception places continues to drop

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Thousands of laptops still needed for Hackney home learners, says Deputy Mayor

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 18 January 2021 at 20:09

Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, the borough’s education boss, on the digital divide, exam grading, and free school meals

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Two rapid testing sites for people without Covid symptoms open in Hackney

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 18 January 2021 at 19:43

The centres in Dalston and Stoke Newington are aimed at people who cannot work or volunteer from home

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A third of Hackney residents may have had coronavirus, data suggests

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 15 January 2021 at 19:58

Watchdog gives clearest picture yet of Covid’s spread across the borough, as Homerton Hospital is stretched to the limit

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Council’s housing waiting list plans will ‘make terrible situation worse’, warn campaigners

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 14 January 2021 at 20:40

Morning Lane People’s Space calls on Town Hall to ‘contest government’s limits, not concede to them’

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Anti-LTN campaign group issues formal legal challenge to Hackney Council

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 14 January 2021 at 20:00

Horrendous Hackney Road Closures applies for judicial review over what it claims were ‘unlawful’ consultation and assessment failures

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Sandford Court residents celebrate as Covid test centre relocated

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 20:57

The site, which provoked multiple complaints from locals, has moved to a recently vacated bus garage

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‘It struck fear into us’: Happy Man Tree campaigners slam Town Hall for ‘overreach’ in court injunction

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 10:50

Following the tree’s felling earlier this month, locals speak out about their ‘humiliating treatment’

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‘Slap in the face’: Anti-lockdown posters at local Wetherspoons spark outrage

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 12 January 2021 at 19:40

Baxter’s Court pub removes material following condemnation from council leaders and ‘infuriated’ health workers

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Borough leader defends mayoral system as campaigners call for referendum

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 11 January 2021 at 21:26

Mayor Glanville responds to accusations of ‘top-down, we-know-best approach’ from anti-LTN campaigners

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Sistah Space campaign accuses council of failure in equalities duty

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 11 January 2021 at 20:29

Group renews demand for ‘safe and secure’ premises for the domestic violence charity, whose founder vows to keep fighting

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Leading councillor raises ‘significant reservations’ over upcoming health reforms

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 January 2021 at 21:11

Cllr Ben Hayhurst fears new regional approach will see NHS decisions being made with ‘no understanding of the different groups in our community’

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Medics work flat out on vaccinations in Hackney as call goes out for volunteers

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 7 January 2021 at 22:32

Local health system rolls out oxygen monitoring for patients at home in just a single day as Westfield mass vaccination site to open ‘fairly soon’

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