Posts Tagged ‘hackney council’
Fire Risk Assessment error blamed on bungling safety expert
According to the council, a surveyor wrongly put 24 June 2017 as the date of an FRA for one of its blocks – despite carrying out the test on 4 October 2016
Read MoreSchool funding reforms ‘designed to confuse parents and quash protests’, say Hackney campaigners
Education Secretary Justine Greening revealed further changes to the controversial national funding formula last week
Read MoreTeaching vacancies at Hackney primaries ‘above average’, the most recent data suggests
‘It is not unusual to have three vacancies across all 53 of Hackney’s primary schools’, says council spokesperson
Read MoreCouncil 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 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 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 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 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
Read MoreMayor hails reopening of ‘fascinating’ Abney Park Chapel
‘Huge milestone’ reached as Stoke Newington’s gothic landmark is made available to the public for the first time since 2013
Read MoreLondon Fields Lido reopening faces further delay
Council to ‘announce opening date soon’ as swimming pool refurbishment is hit by fresh setbacks
Read MoreGrenfell: Public inquiry must be ‘broad and open’, says Hackney’s mayor
Philip Glanville says ‘no stone must be left unturned’, including the role of contractors, as he sets out Town Hall’s position in letter to inquiry chief
Read MoreDecades-old children’s charity pleads for council ‘rescue package’
Albion Kids Show, which runs play sessions on Hackney estates, blames imminent closure on lack of funding and ‘devastating’ £16k rent hike
Read MoreGrenfell: Hackney publishes first Fire Risk Assessments for council blocks
Town Hall to release FRAs for its social housing ‘over the coming weeks and months’, as Information Commissioner urges all councils to be ‘proactive’
Read MoreGrenfell: Hackney rehired Lakehouse for £5m contract despite fraud probe
Town Hall says it was left with ‘no choice’ but to appoint Lakehouse to fit heating systems on Hackney estates
Read MoreCouncil launches public space anti-social behaviour consultation
Town Hall invites residents to have their say as it announces plans to increase enforcement officer numbers
Read MoreGrenfell fire alarms firm in fraud probe over ‘defective’ work in Hackney
Allegations relate to fire safety work carried out by Lakehouse between 2011 and 2014, including ‘incorrectly fitted’ alarms
Read MorePeople’s Parking Bay founder urges council to reverse removal threat
Brenda Puech’s parking space garden could be driven out following complaint from car owner
Read MoreIt should take just ‘two days’ to test cladding, says former council health and safety officer
Town Hall said today – nearly two weeks after Grenfell disaster – that independent cladding tests “will begin this week”
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