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Posts Tagged ‘housing’

‘Explosive’ report questions Town Hall’s proposed tower repair work

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 13 November 2018 at 14:56

Morland leaseholders demand ‘firm evidence’ from council for basis of remedial proposals

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Town Hall’s new Britannia scheme gets the planning go-ahead

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 8 November 2018 at 19:40

Councillors ‘delighted’ while environmental campaigner calls plans ‘worst I’ve seen for a long time’

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Controversial Britannia scheme recommended for approval

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 30 October 2018 at 18:27

Campaigner ‘sad and disappointed’ ahead of final decision on leisure centre plans

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Thousands of Hackney homes to get new fire-resistant doors

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 October 2018 at 10:54
Hackney Town Hall

17,000 front doors to be replaced in multimillion-pound council project which is expected to last three years

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Over 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers

By Max Eckersley | Monday 13 August 2018 at 13:28

Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development

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Council to look into allegations of illegally-overcrowded Upper Clapton houses

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 August 2018 at 14:42
Hawkwood Mount in Upper Clapton.

Claims come in wake of application for 13-room HMO on Hawkwood Mount

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Town Hall defends Marian Court publicity amid claims of ‘spinning the truth’ on housing

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 10:38

Homerton scheme means fewer social rent homes – but is this clear from council publicity?

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Town Hall says half of £20m in Section 106 money is earmarked for affordable homes and transport

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 15 June 2018 at 13:14
Hackney Town Hall

Hackney Council rejects claims of ‘sitting on’ millions in unspent housing money

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More than 600 Hackney council homes sold under right-to-buy in six years

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 13 June 2018 at 13:27

Mayor urges government to end ‘arbitrary regulations’ on housing

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Marian Court demolition and revamp approved with fewer social rent homes

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 June 2018 at 17:31

Twelve-storey council scheme green-lit by planning chiefs

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Mayor reaffirms housing pledge after sale of £1m homes in Hackney rises 1,700 per cent

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 25 May 2018 at 18:19

A senior council figure called the finding an ‘unwelcome statistic’

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Independent candidate Vernon Williams would build 500 homeless chalets on parks as Hackney Mayor

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 18 April 2018 at 12:55
'People are...being treated as disposable peasants': independent Hackney mayoral candidate Vernon Williams. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

‘People are basically being treated as disposable peasants’

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Council invites tenants to ‘celebrate their estates’ at free housing festival

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 11:56

Live music and freebies on offer at first ever Your Homes event next month

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‘Eyesore’ boiler house in Clapton to be demolished and replaced by block of council flats

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 February 2018 at 11:35

Pedro Street plans green-lit last night will provide 26 affordable homes

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Council tackles 3,000 urgent fire safety issues discovered post-Grenfell

By Adam Barnett | Friday 2 February 2018 at 07:57

Mayor says council is ‘working flat out’ to act on FRAs as front doors are checked on estates

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Titbits – Quiet consultations and confusing quotations

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 December 2017 at 09:52
Titbits bird

More on the Town Hall’s communication problems in this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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Residents slam council plans to turn ‘thriving’ community garden into housing

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 30 October 2017 at 17:37

Local group Daubeney Fields Forever calls for a rethink, but Town Hall says it is ‘doing all it can to build the homes Hackney needs’

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House-building company plans have not been ‘brought before’ cabinet – despite being promised for 2017

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 October 2017 at 14:24
Glanville donned the hi-vis for his visit to an 'affordable development' in Homerton, run by developers Pocket. Photograph: Champollion PR / Pocket

In April council officers said it would be set up “by the end of the year”

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Sign our petition: we call on the Mayor and council to fit fire sprinklers in all of Hackney’s tower blocks

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 21 June 2017 at 22:14
Hackney Town Hall

Following the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, the Hackney Citizen urges immediate action to protect residents living in the borough’s high rises

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Grenfell Fire: Cladding to be inspected as Hackney plans ‘independent review’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 21 June 2017 at 14:23
Grenfell Tower fire

Tower blocks will be checked for fire safety following Grenfell disaster

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