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Council invites tenants to ‘celebrate their estates’ at free housing festival
Live music and freebies on offer at first ever Your Homes event next month
Read MoreTown Hall launches search for 100 inspirational Hackney women to mark suffrage centenary
Nominations are open to find and showcase ‘local heroes’ driving change in the borough
Read MoreSafety expert raises concerns over imminent cladding work in Hackney
Town Hall revealed this month that cladding at four blocks is to be replaced
Read MoreHackney set to receive £317k from Sadiq Khan to improve streets
The extra funding, which forms part of Transport for London’s budget for the coming year, will go towards sprucing up neighbourhoods
Read MoreResidents urge Hackney Council to reject three-storey block of flats in London Fields West Side
TRA slams ‘unacceptable’ loss of light and privacy as council sends out consultation letters
Read MoreVillage Underground gets £1.9m cash boost for Hackney Arts Centre project
Plans to turn the derelict Savoy cinema into a culture venue are taking shape
Read MoreClosure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End
Doctors say the five patients’ move to Thames House Ward will improve ‘quality of care’
Read MoreJoiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape
Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March
Read MoreHackney to vote on anti-semitism definition opposed by anti-Israel campaigners
IHRA definition adopted by 125 local authorities has seen protests in other boroughs
Read MoreLunar New Year: Hackney’s East Asian communities to unite for Year of the Dog celebration
Members of Hackney’s Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese populations are working together on a day of performance, collaboration and guest speakers – including Mayor Glanville
Read MoreNHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital
Trust says five-year sum is lowest for any London hospital with a maternity unit
Read MoreSuccess for Northwold Estate residents as Guinness Partnership scraps demolition plans
The landlord has proposed new plans to ‘infill’ the estate with 100 new homes
Read MoreHackney crime chief says cuts to blame for Tower Hamlets police merger
Cllr Selman said she would work to ‘minimise the impact’ on residents
Read MoreHackney police to merge with Tower Hamlets as Met looks to save £325m
Basic Command Unit will share police officers, buildings and resources
Read MoreNightclubs face early closing time as Hackney’s draft licensing policy clears another hurdle
‘Core hours’ and Shoreditch Special Policy extension agreed by Licensing Committee
Read MoreLast chance to have your say on the future of Hackney’s pharmacies
Council survey on draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment closes tonight
Read MoreDalston Tesco Express to become a 120-room hotel despite fears of Shoreditch-level anti-social behaviour
Speaker of Hackney among opponents of hotel on Kingsland High Street
Read MoreHackney tenants unite in battle against ‘poor housing conditions’
A new campaign group is opposing plans to amalgamate Peabody and Family Mosaic housing associations
Read More‘Eyesore’ boiler house in Clapton to be demolished and replaced by block of council flats
Pedro Street plans green-lit last night will provide 26 affordable homes
Read MoreHate crimes strategy: Hackney Council invites residents to have their say
Public consultation on borough’s draft hate crimes strategy closes 23 March
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