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Grass roots: the local gardening group with big plans for Hackney Downs

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 13:34

Garden state: Hackney Community Gardeners are proposing to rejuvenate Hackney Downs Park. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Overgrown bowling green could be jettisoned for a host of new features if Hackney Community Gardeners get their way

Too tall for school: residents slam council’s ‘imposing’ tower proposals

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 February 2015 at 10:37

Proposals unveiled to pay for new schools in Hoxton and Hackney Downs through sale of private flats

Residents slam council’s ‘flawed’ consultation over plan to build school on Hackney Downs

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 February 2011 at 13:32

Hackney Downs Photo Graham Parry

Locals have expressed concern about the lack of information available on a controversial proposal to ‘plonk a school in the middle of a park’