Posts by Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter
Council 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
Read MoreCouncil spent £10,000 on parking charges in a year
Hackney employees clocked up more than £10,000 in parking penalties and road charges over 12 months
Read MoreGreens accused of U-turn as they approve Woodberry Down ‘double decant’ to avoid £13.5m overrun
Up to 32 council households face being moved twice under a schedule signed off at Mayor Zoë Garbett’s first cabinet — despite the Greens’ past attacks on the estate’s demolition-led regeneration
Read MoreRevealed: Hackney went nearly seven years without a housing repairs contract as homes decayed
Council missed an entire structural repairs cycle after its main contractor deal lapsed in 2019 — a gap insiders say left tenants in damp and mould
Read MoreLabour accuses Mayor Garbett of claiming credit for gym plans it drew up
Opposition says the conversion of ’empty’ Christopher Addison House into a stopgap gym predates the Green administration’s Who Owns Hackney project
Read MoreDalston by-election: Greens win by-election triggered by Zoë Garbett’s mayoral victory
Manal Massalha elected as councillor for Dalston ward after winning 549 votes at the poll held on Thursday 25 June
Read MoreHackney Central by-election: Greens hold seat in close race with Labour
Noah Birksted-Breen wins by a margin of 52 votes, with Labour’s Sheila Suso-Runge in second place
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