Posts Tagged ‘hackney council’
‘We don’t use WhatsApp’: Young people deliver Snapchat training to council safeguarding officers
‘Paradigm shift’ in social care underway as Town Hall presents new approach of contextualised safeguarding
Read More‘Homes not hotels’: Protestors lose out at planning committee as ‘harmful’ Chocolate Studios development gets go-ahead
‘We’re very disappointed. The developers quite clearly stated they couldn’t be bothered to speak to the residents’, says councillor
Read MoreNumber of homes for social rent under completed Woodberry Down plans under scrutiny
Updated plans for seven more socially-rented properties for estate’s Block B approved at planning meeting
Read MoreBard in the Yard: New Shakespeare statue to sit near Elizabethan Shoreditch Theatre
Sculpture planned as part of public realm around Hackney’s first official monument
Read MoreReformed gang members urge schools to stop excluding pupils at risk of exploitation
Calls made for more outreach workers able to speak to young people ‘from a Hackney perspective’
Read MoreSpace found for socially rented flats in new Woodberry Down block
‘It’s a pretty good deal to get, because the figures at the start were slightly different,’ says community organisation chair
Read More‘Friends! Musicians! Visionaries!’: Town Hall rally planned to protect Strongroom Studios from construction work
Protesters claim ‘developments such as this will kill culture’ as Save Strongroom petition attracts almost 6,000 names
Read MoreChocolate Studios residents protest being ‘plunged into darkness’ by controversial hotel development
‘There are some office occupiers that actually prefer to have lower levels of natural light,’ says council report
Read MoreWarnings over Brexit impact on food supply spark Town Hall review
‘Setting up food resilience teams is something practical local authorities can do,’ says City University of London
Read MoreResidents urge Town Hall to seize opportunity to end ‘mistrust’ with community conversation
Mayor canvasses locals’ vision for Dalston’s future as London Renters Union slams proliferation of ‘massive new developer-led flats’
Read MoreTelford Homes restart exploratory works at contaminated construction site
Hackney Wick residents call for assurances that noxious fumes will not be released again
Read MoreMayor talks of challenge of ‘squaring the circle’ over borough’s housing
Town Hall boss calls for ‘balance’ in approach to night-time economy during Mayor’s Question Time event
Read MoreHackney to give microplastics the brush-off with biodegradable bristles
Announcement comes as finance chief boasts of ‘Hackney model’ for new sustainable procurement strategy
Read MoreOutcry increases over plans to close all Hackney’s Overground ticket offices
Council considers proposals ‘unacceptable’ as Hackney Disability BackUp and RMT voice opposition
Read MoreThames Water slammed by residents for ‘inadequate’ response to Lea Bridge floods
‘We don’t want to see this any more in Hackney, this should be the last time. It takes its toll on everyone’
Read MoreLegal row brewing between campaigners and council over Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over local people but states legal challenge to plans has no grounds
Read More‘Big step forward’: Hackney Council to get half of its power from renewables by April 2019
Town Hall proposes working with other local authorities ‘to put rocket boosters under investment in renewable energy’
Read MoreCouncil’s use of embedded Home Office staff criticised as part of ‘hostile environment’
Project 17 and Hackney Green Party urge Town Hall to think again on ‘very intimidating’ policy
Read More‘Grim reading’: Net loss of hundreds of social rent homes expected under Woodberry Down plans
Town Hall contest figures though unable to directly refute them due to poor record-keeping in the 2000s
Read More‘No obvious link’ between Hackney’s drug markets and an increase in violence, report finds
Findings contradict National Crime Agency claims that drugs fuel London’s violent crime
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