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Hackney residents slam landlord’s plan for two large HMOs
Council rejects seven- and nine-bedroom shared homes following complaints from neighbours and politicians
Read MoreEmpty primary school poised to reopen as specialist facility for SEND children
Baden Powell school was closed by the council last year due to falling pupil numbers
Read MoreGrassroots renewable energy group transforms West Hackney church into ‘greenest in the country’
Stokey Energy has now installed solar panels on more than a dozen buildings across the borough, including a West Hackney church
Read MoreRomeo Bremmer, 17, wins British Citizen Youth Award – ‘The work’s just begun’
‘Without the Windrush elders, I wouldn’t have had the foundations to do what I’m doing today’
Read More‘How To Get On With Everybody’ – Inspiring documentary about beloved Hackney rabbi to show at the Rio Cinema
‘It’s a very nice film’ says Rabbi Herschel Gluck, ‘a very beautiful film’
Read MoreHackney couple could end up paying more in service charges despite High Court victory
John and Adenike Williams were previously awarded £20,000 in damages by Hackney Council for wrongly placing their children in foster care
Read MoreClapton ‘eyesore’ unrecognisable as vibrant new mural celebrates ‘nature and community spirit’
The mural has become the ‘centrepiece’ of a once ‘unloved’ part of Lower Clapton, according to residents.
Read MoreHoxton legal advice service at risk of closure after 32 years as charity scrambles for funding
The Hoxton Trust’s CEO says funding options to keep the service open ‘are now quite severely limited’
Read More‘I’ve had to boil the kettle and fill the sink for a flannel wash’ – council leaves woman without hot water for a month
‘Hackney is treating a 30-day delay in restoring hot water as reasonable’
Read MoreHackney Co-op slammed for damp and mould failures as Awaab’s Law comes into force
Housing Ombudsman says his latest report shows the need for a new law requiring landlords to fix hazards sooner
Read MoreCommunity group condemns plans to demolish Rowley Gardens Estate for a ‘monolith as penetrable as Uluru’
Friends of Rowley Gardens calls for the block to be renovated rather than bulldozed as part of the Woodberry Down regeneration
Read MoreCouncil accused of ‘salami slicing’ library budgets
‘It is about time this Labour council called on the central government to provide more funding’
Read MoreCouncil’s £51 million budget gap likely to increase if ‘Fair Funding Review’ left unchanged
Concerns raised over ‘detrimental’ impact of government’s review on council finances
Read MoreDe-selection of ‘excellent’ councillors sparks allegations of Labour ‘lack of transparency’
Petition launched to ‘save Hackney councillors Soraya Adejare and M Can Ozsen’
Read MoreCandice Lin review – ‘These fabulations may be familiar to those of us who wince at the triviality of our own lives’
Behold an allegorical landscape at the Whitechapel Gallery
Read MoreFrank Watson review – ‘recounting the many minor mysteries of fraying English life in tucked-away spots’
His photographs walk the fine line between the banal and the sublime
Read More‘Mould kills! Safe council homes now!’ – Protesters call for housing reform on first day of Awaab’s Law
Awaab’s Law is named after Awaab Ishak, a two-year-old boy who died as a result of a severe respiratory condition
Read More‘Excessive’ sanctions at Hackney school left children ‘demoralised, without clear improvement in behaviour’
In the four months from September 2024 to February 2025, the school dished out 29,914 next-day detentions
Read More‘A litany of concerns’: Hackney councillors discuss Palantir contract with Homerton
‘We are in touch with workers in many trusts across all levels who want to resist the rollout’
Read More‘It’s not f***ing okay’ – Tempers flare at council debate over Hackney’s ‘ties’ with Israel
The council has faced pressure from Green party and Independent Socialist councillors to end its twinning relationship with Haifa, but Hackney Labour party has accused its opponents of political game-playing
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