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Posts Tagged ‘East End Trades Guild’

Hackney traders ‘deeply frustrated’ by City Hall delay on community land trust sites

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 9 May 2025 at 10:28

East End Trades Guild say action over affordable workspaces ‘long overdue’ following Town Hall roundtable

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Hackney yoga studio fears eviction after Transport for London ‘quadruples’ rent

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 March 2025 at 19:50

Owners scramble to raise £25k as trades guild warns small businesses are being ‘killed off’

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‘The work starts now’: Evicted Haggerston mechanic vows to keep fighting for fairer rents

By Hazel Sheffield | Thursday 14 November 2024 at 15:38

JC Motors boss Len Maloney calls on people to back plans for community-owned premises

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‘Desperate situation’: Artists join forces to campaign against eviction of Hackney mechanic

By Hazel Sheffield | Friday 11 October 2024 at 13:19

Len Maloney of JC Motors again faces being forced out of the area after his rent skyrocketed

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Hackney car mechanic sings ‘Stand by Me’ for crowdfunder to save his garage

By Hazel Sheffield | Tuesday 28 November 2023 at 12:48

Len Maloney has run JC Motors from a railway arch in Haggerston for 22 years – but rent rises have left him facing an uncertain future

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‘People here are suffering’: Popular mechanic faces eviction from Haggerston railway arch as rent arrears hit £70k

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 8 June 2023 at 12:19
Len Maloney and his JC Motors team

Len Maloney is appealing to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan for help after seeing his rent more than triple

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Guardians of the Arches take sell-off fight to Parliament

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 June 2018 at 12:20
Guardians of the Arches

Traders up in arms over threat to the future of Hackney’s local businesses

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Business rates: Town Hall launches consultation on £7m relief fund

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 September 2017 at 12:48
Left to right: Meg Hillier MP, Len Maloney (JC Motors), Mayor Philip Glanville. Photograph: Hackney Council.

Residents can have a say on how money is dished out to local businesses, which were hit hard by this year’s rates hike

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‘I found my East Berlin right here in East London’: Hackney Tours interview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 13:01
“I think anything that brings people together to connect with each other and provokes questions and debate is a good thing”: Simon Cole (far right) with a hardy band of tourists. Photograph: Frank Da Silva

We meet Simon Cole who, as the man behind the ‘alternative experience walks’, knows his Hackney history and the lay of the land locally

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‘Small wins give us confidence’, say business rates campaigners

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 March 2017 at 17:59
Mayor Glanville speaks at business rates summit

Mayor welcomes budget measures but local trader says government is still ‘punishing’ small businesses

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Petition opposing business rates hike handed to Downing Street

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 14:49
Left to right: Meg Hillier MP, Len Maloney (JC Motors), Mayor Philip Glanville. Photograph: Hackney Council.

‘The sheer severity of the impact on areas like Hackney is unjustifiable’, warns Mayor Philip Glanville

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Hackney businesses slam ‘devastating’ rates hike at emergency summit

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 27 February 2017 at 12:11
Mayor Glanville speaks at business rates summit

Local traders were supported by Town Hall bosses as they expressed fears over the ‘unjustifiable’ rise

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Traders’ ‘future in doubt’ as government moots business rates rise

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 February 2017 at 17:43
Len Maloney and his JC Motors team

Town Hall business chief says increase will ‘tear the heart out of local communities’ as council joins forces with Hackney traders to launch petition

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East End Trades Guild launch crowdfunding campaign for Independents’ Day

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 11:52
Tatty Devine

EETG is working with local independent enterprises to launch East End Independents’ Day on Small Business Saturday

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Manufacturing discontent: where has all the industrial space gone?

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 5 March 2016 at 12:27
East London-based architecture collective Assemble

A growing population and the housing crisis are creating a shortage of industrial land

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The butcher, the baker and the bag maker – East End Trades Guild launches

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 16 December 2012 at 10:53

Independent traders in East London join forces to resist threat of rising rents and competition from big companies

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