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Posts Tagged ‘hackney council’

Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 12:42

Plant-Based Hackney fears Town Hall is ‘nowhere near as ambitious as it claims to be’

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‘The spirit of a place’ – How Dalston painters and potters fought back to save studio block from closure

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 10:46
Painter Ansel Krut in his studio

Hackney Council moved to sell off Ashwin Street’s creative workspaces earlier this year, but artists have now bought the site after refusing to give up

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Council says ‘no hard plans’ to close nurseries this year after legal challenge

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:22
Children's centres protest

Town Hall shelved plans to close two children’s centres, but questions linger over lessons learned from the debacle

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Hackney Council more than doubles its debt in one year – but what is the Town Hall spending on?

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:09
Hackney Town Hall

Hackney Council’s borrowing is below average for London, but its debt burden is set to rise five-fold by 2028

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Former councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 17:45

Vincent Stops responds to a report by campaigners that called his involvement an ‘egregious lack of transparency’

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Iconic Hackney estate made famous by rent campaign set for sweeping regeneration

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:09

New Era residents took on their former landlord and won – now their homes are due for large-scale refurbishment

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‘Ridiculous’: Council blocks juice bar from putting tables outside due to ‘encroachment’ on nearby park

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 11 September 2025 at 13:28

Owner of Faith in Nature’s Juices says he doesn’t understand why tables and chairs stretching five metres are not in line with council policy

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Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of consultation ‘con job’ in scathing report

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 09:34

Morning Lane People’s Space urges Town Hall to ‘do better’, with ‘future of the town centre at stake’

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Titbits – Lording it up

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 September 2025 at 17:27
Titbits bird

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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‘Disappointed’: Residents and community groups condemn latest Woodberry Down masterplan

By Catriona Harrison | Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 16:56

Loss of social homes and biodiversity among complaints as new proposals set to be put in front of councillors

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Families warn they could quit Hackney after nursery fee hikes

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 August 2025 at 15:24

Parents say the borough has become an unaffordable place to raise children

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Housing officers halt imminent strikes in hope of ‘good faith’ talks

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 11:30
Hackney Town Hall

Three further strikes set for late August ‘still on the table’ in case negotiations break down

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For years we’ve fought’: Hackney studio branded ‘Abbey Road of photography’ beats third demolition bid

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 14 August 2025 at 16:36
Holborn Studios

Holborn Studios is not to be demolished, after the High Court overruled the Planning Inspectorate

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Warehouse venue got twice as many supporters as objectors over dancefloor plan – it wasn’t enough

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 19:01
118 Curtain Road

The number of representations made to the licensing committee in support of the application was double those opposing

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NHS to close sexual health clinic serving City and Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 August 2025 at 14:32

Homerton Hospital to shut clinic in October due to falling patient numbers post-pandemic and rent costs – despite Hackney remaining STI hotspot

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Petition urging council to freeze nursery fee hike hits 500 signatures

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 August 2025 at 10:16

One signatory calls move ‘slap to the face of hard-working families’, but Town Hall says ‘it was a choice we had to make’

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Inside a record store’s fight for survival in Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 August 2025 at 09:11

Recycle Vinyl’s owner came to Dalston with dreams of a multi-use record shop and dance space – the reality has been harsh

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Council to cap e-bike fares and charge carriers £80 to collect badly parked cycles

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 31 July 2025 at 09:53

Local restaurateur say current scheme feels ‘a bit of a Wild West’

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Hackney councillor walks out of domestic violence debate after rejected amendment

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 28 July 2025 at 11:39

Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof leaves chamber after Labour votes against call to protect undocumented migrant women

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‘The voice of good design and conservation needs to be heard’

By Max Eckersley | Friday 25 July 2025 at 09:51

Hackney Society’s Lisa Shell on the band of volunteers fighting for the borough’s heritage, keeping the council in check, and adapting after the sudden loss of a friend and colleague

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