Council offers £30k for job ‘sorting papers’ of ex-Mayor Jules Pipe
‘You will need to have a head for heights due to the tall racking!’ the Town Hall warns applicants
Read MoreAnti-poverty charity slams Town Hall’s ‘absurd’ council tax proposals
Zacchaeus 2000 Trust says changes to relief scheme will ‘take money out of the pockets of their poorest residents’, but council says government cuts led to decision
Read MoreEssence Cuisine, Shoreditch, restaurant review: raw and order
This shiny new Shoreditch hangout is part-takeaway salad joint, part-molecular gastronomy café, and 100 per cent meat, dairy, gluten and refined sugar-free. Rabbit food or raving success?
Read MoreTitbits – ALMOs, Sudokus and mysterious burgesses
More on the Town Hall’s puzzling behaviour in this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Hackney Council now must put fire safety first
To take a lackadaisical approach – missed deadlines, delays to checks, a trickle of information – is to neglect one of the council’s absolute duties
Read MoreTown Hall misses high priority blaze threat targets three times
Guidance set by safety experts on dealing with ‘P1’ risks is that they must be fixed within a month
Read MoreHackney Council’s letting agency does not exist, Town Hall admits
Priority Homes scheme billed as a social letting agency ‘because that’s how most people would understand its function’
Read MoreBusiness rates: Town Hall launches consultation on £7m relief fund
Residents can have a say on how money is dished out to local businesses, which were hit hard by this year’s rates hike
Read MoreWalking on eggshells: Gillian Riley on eggs, featuring global recipes and some cracking history
Through the eyes of Gillian Riley’s “always hungry” Roman legionary (who this month is picking up some eggs from Stamford Hill for the journey north), take a tour of the world’s unbeatable eggy dishes
Read MoreFire risks at council property left unchecked for over five years
When an assessment was eventually carried out this year, it found there was no fire detection or alarm system.
Read MoreCharity’s River Lea reedbed drive hits 1000-metre landmark
Thames 21’s volunteer project creates habitats for wildlife and helps to reduce pollution
Read MoreWandsworth Sash Windows: redesigning entire properties, not just windows
When calling in the window experts these clients were not expecting the complete transformation of their home
Read MoreAmateur hour: 85-year-old AmDram group Tower Theatre Company set sights on Stoke Newington
Booze license approved for site on Northwold Road despite objections from locals
Read MoreHackney Council freesheet claims to be a ‘fortnightly newspaper’ – but legally may be neither
Hackney Today ‘appears to be in breach of the law’, says Citizen editor
Read MoreHackney One Carnival returns on 10 September – we have all the details
Find out the new route, what’s on, the prospective weather and more in our guide to next weekend’s festivities
Read MoreWorking age households could face extra £100 a year burden under new council tax proposals
Mayor Glanville says planned change to tax reduction scheme is the ‘fairest option’ amid ‘massive funding shortfall’
Read MoreDisability campaign group slams council’s user-unfriendly fire risk map
Lack of accessibility is ‘denying disabled people the opportunity to play a full role in Hackney life’
Read MoreFluffer Pit Party, Dalston Epic, review: Deap Vally attack from all angles
The vaunted 360-degree stage may dilute their energy slightly, but LA’s Deap Vally were still able to blow the crowd away when they hit Dalston last week
Read MoreJust two letting agents sign up to council’s fee-scrapping scheme in its first month
Town Hall is asking local agents to stop charging letting fees voluntarily ahead of expected government ban
Read MoreLondon Fields Lido finally gets reopening date – after end of summer
The pool will throw its doors back open to swimmers on the last day of September
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