Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter, Author at Hackney Citizen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bold plans include a network of green infrastructure linking various parts of the borough, though council faces calls to ‘protect existing biodiversity’ too

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

Posts by Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Dunsmure Road businesses speak out against plan for School Streets

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

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

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

Empty Hoxton car park to be transformed into 73 homes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sandford Court residents celebrate as Covid test centre relocated

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

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

Borough leader defends mayoral system as campaigners call for referendum

Sistah Space campaign accuses council of failure in equalities duty

Leading councillor raises ‘significant reservations’ over upcoming health reforms

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