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Hackney New School makes architectural grade
Hackney New School is responding to the challenges – budgetary or otherwise – of a new era in school building
Read More‘Perpetual insecurity’: author Rosie Walker on the Rent Trap
A new book aims to lift the lid on the ‘market-induced inequality’ in private renting
Read MoreLiving in a material world: upholstering with the School of Stuff
Students at Dalston’s School of Stuff reinvigorate old furniture using traditional upholstery methods
Read MoreLiving in a material world: upholstering with the School of Stuff
Students at Dalston’s School of Stuff reinvigorate old furniture using traditional upholstery methods
Read MoreHow citizens are seeking to solve the housing crisis from the bottom up
Squeezed East Londoners are fighting back to shape how their neighbourhood develops
Read MoreLondon Festival of Architecture – preview
Tower Hamlets will be under the spotlight at this year’s annual celebration of architecture
Read MoreGetting stuffed – self-storage lock-up stages play about belongings
Handle with Care follows Zoe on a 30-year journey, viewed through the prism of her personal effects
Read MoreKenny Morgan review – ‘a worthy tribute’
Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain
Read MoreVoter registration in Hackney is amongst the lowest in London
New research shows that in seven Hackney wards fewer than 80 per cent of people are on the electoral roll, a figure below the national average
Read MoreRows over London Fields ‘quietway’ and BBQs are battles in war for space
A growing population brings with it growing pressures and competing demands
Read MoreTitbits – councillors, cuckoo mayors and Linden’s day out
Read the column that pecks at the crumbs of what’s going on in the borough
Read MoreHelping hoarders to make room
Charity event at Hackney Picturehouse to offer advice and support to declutter the lives of people with hoarding conditions
Read MoreLubavitch Senior Girls’ School rated ‘good’ by Ofsted
‘Headteacher has worked with determination and vision’
Read MoreFormer Hackney ‘superhead’ banned from teaching for life by Education Secretary
Nicky Morgan rejects advice and bans Greg Wallace from teaching indefinitely over £1m financial misconduct
Read MoreAbney Park’s Grade II-listed gates ‘saved’ as greengrocer’s plans prove fruitless
Council refuses to allow local business to expand its premises, after Abney Park Trust objects to plans
Read MoreFume Free Streets slams ‘perverse’ proposal over London Fields ‘quietway’
Hackney Council should scrap original road closure plans, council officers to recommend
Read MoreEU referendum – don’t forget to vote on 23 June
In order to vote, you must be registered by 7 June
Read MoreCouncillors clash over election of new Speaker of Hackney
Opposition parties take the unusual step of proposing an alternative
Read MorePetition launched against plan to turn Mecca Bingo Hackney Road into high-rise flats
‘What is being proposed to replace it not only would be unaffordable to the local community but a visual eyesore to the area’
Read MoreRio Cinema workers strike over living wage and job cuts
Industrial action goes ahead in face of cinema restructure that would offer staff higher wages but cut hours and employees to pay for it
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