Posts by Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter
‘Cyclists don’t stop’: disabled residents frightened of floating bus stops as council urged to reject them
Protesters turned up to the Town Hall in anger at the council updating its plans for Queensbridge Road
Read MoreRidley Road Shopping Village traders bid for community asset status
Traders have held out at the Dalston shopping hall since March, working without lights after the landlord cut the power
Read MoreHackney Council security guard filmed throwing housing protester to the floor
Campaigners spent two hours in the foyer demanding a home for a family in one-bedroom temporary accommodation
Read MoreOmbudsman 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 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 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 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 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 MoreCouncil rejects self-storage plans for crumbling Anvil House
Officers criticised an ‘excessively prominent’ top storey, poor-quality cladding and unfinished bat surveys
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 MoreVictorian tram depot in Clapton set for revival
The 1873 depot, once home to horse-drawn trams, survived a demolition threat in 2011
Read MoreBoxpark keeps licence despite ‘tsunami of noise’ complaints
Police and environmental health declined to back the ten residents who sought a formal review
Read MoreHackney moves to end six-decade twinning with Haifa amid antisemitism row
The borough’s new Green administration has triggered a process to sever its 1968 partnership with the Israeli city, honouring an election pledge
Read MoreChatsworth public toilets spared as Greens reverse Labour plan
New administration scraps sale of the derelict Brooksby’s Walk site after campaigners warn that selling off public assets is ‘crazy economics’
Read MoreProtesters demand return of ‘precious’ London Fields paddling pool
Families who fought to bring back the London Fields paddling pool are celebrating after the council agreed to kickstart its return, five years after it closed
Read MorePost office closure sends Broadway Market reeling
Residents launch petition after London Fields branch is repossessed in a 3am lockout — with over 1,500 signatures now urging the landlord, MP and Post Office to reopen its doors
Read MoreHackney Greens distance themselves from Burnham effigy protest
Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed — but the party insists they witnessed no violence
Read MoreThe graveyard at Hackney Wick: sunken boats left to rot
Where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee at Hackney Wick, two sunken narrow boats lie within touching distance of one another
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