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Stoke Newington maisonette among number of community spaces being converted back into council housing
‘Clearly we had a surfeit of social housing at one point and now we definitely don’t,’ says planning committee chair
Read More‘Truly inspiring precedent’: East London’s first wild swimming pond inches closer as campaign group glides past £500k crowdfunding target
East London Waterworks Park campaigners now have their sights set on purchasing the land for their ‘brownfield rainforest’
Read MoreEmergency appeal launched for Stoke Newington businesses left ‘fighting for survival’ after building collapse
A number of traders on the High Street cannot access their businesses, with the road set to be closed until mid-February
Read MoreLGBT+ History Month: Hackney mayor hopes ‘people of every identity feel represented’ as borough’s celebrations get underway
Walks, talks, films, performances and more are taking place across the borough throughout February
Read MoreHackney food charity raises £5k through sales of its ‘delicious’ plant-based burger
Made In Hackney has teamed up with Fuller’s brewery, which has sold 10,000 of the burgers in its pubs and hotels
Read More‘So much local support’: Teachers striking over pay force closure of 47 Hackney schools
‘Teachers have had enough of low pay and a lack of funding,’ says local union representative
Read MoreThousands of council tenants facing seven per cent rent hike as housing costs spiral
Town Hall asks residents for feedback on the planned increase by 17 February
Read MoreTwo arrested on suspicion of child neglect over death of seven-year-old girl
Police took a man, 49, and a woman, 50, into custody
Read MoreHigh Street, Stoke Newington: emergency work after rubble rains down from building
The road could be closed to traffic for another week
Read MoreIncrease in councillors’ allowances approved
Every councillor can claim a basic annual allowance of £12,014.
Read MoreAnti-road closure campaigners raise £10,000 court costs and challenge council to donate to charities
Horrendous Hackney Road Closures appealed on social media to raise the cash
Read MoreKeep NHS land for NHS use, say campaigners over St Leonard’s Hospital sell-off fears
Council should call on the government for more funding for buildings upkeep, according to Hackney Keep Our NHS Public
Read MoreSafeguarding expert warning over children in unregistered Hackney ‘schools’
‘The influence that we have is fundamentally undermined by a whack-a-mole approach’
Read MoreLTN extension plan: Motor vehicles to face restrictions on three quarters of Hackney’s streets
‘It’s a really ambitious plan to reduce pollution’, says Cllr Mete Coban
Read More‘Completely unacceptable’: Cyclists demand ‘better alternative’ after Network Rail shuts major link between Hackney and Islington
Campaigners demand better alternative route to railway bridge that has been shut for safety reasons
Read MoreNHS campaigners urge council to fight for beloved hospital in Hoxton – before it is ‘forever lost’
Activists ask Town Hall to lobby government for cash to ensure St Leonard’s is kept for patients
Read More‘Best form of transport’: New walking map of Hackney Central celebrates borough’s ‘fascinating and diverse’ history
Hackney Central Footways, available online and in print for free, is designed to encourage people to explore on foot
Read MoreUnion calls off tomorrow’s library strike in Hackney as ‘gesture of goodwill’ – but February action set to go ahead
Unison says it wants to ‘give management more time to work on compulsory redundancies and make other positive changes’
Read More‘Toughest time in living memory’: Hackney Foodbank launches emergency £100k appeal as it struggles to keep up with unprecedented demand
The charity is expecting to spend £125k on food this year – a figure that has risen from just £2k in 2017
Read More‘Simply not good enough’: Child safeguarding expert urges police and other bodies to back up anti-racism pledges with evidence
Jim Gamble says organisations need to ‘evidence what they have done and who they have challenged’
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