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Posts Tagged ‘LLDC’

Ecologist ‘proud’ as new species of bee and wasp discovered at Olympic Park

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 June 2025 at 14:24

A survey of wildlife at the 102-hectare site has left experts buzzing

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Displaced Travellers dejected after setback in struggle for long-promised pitch

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 29 January 2025 at 14:25

Families moved ahead of 2012 Olympics have faced years of delay and trust has worn thin

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Displaced Travellers outraged as confusion reigns over funding for long-promised site

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 6 December 2024 at 17:27

Families displaced by 2012 Olympics still in temporary housing after years of waiting for new residential area

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‘Pungent’ fumes in Hackney Wick spark investigation

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 17 April 2024 at 19:01

Construction has been paused at a building site on Wallis Road – the same road where toxic gas was found in 2018

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Titbits – Nil, nought, nothing and some Olympic puffing

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 December 2023 at 08:53
Titbits bird

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

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Residents urged to have their say on a new bridge between Hackney Wick and Fish Island

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 26 October 2022 at 17:05

The London Legacy Development Corporation will host two drop-in sessions over the coming week

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Hackney schoolchildren mark two ‘special milestones’ by planting trees at Olympic Park

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 9 June 2022 at 11:50

Mossbourne pupils, all born in 2012, celebrate both the 10-year anniversary of the London Olympics and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

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Olympic legacy? Hackney residents on how London 2012 changed the borough

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 23 August 2021 at 20:28

With the Tokyo Olympics behind us and Paralympians gearing up for their shot at gold, Hackney locals examine the footprint of London’s Games

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‘Towers of privilege’: East London politicians call for return of powers from Olympic legacy corporation

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 9 October 2019 at 19:52

Councillors brand lack of affordable homes in recent Hackney Wick developments ‘egregious’

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Town Hall sanctions rent caps in Hackney Wick to ‘protect its creative heart’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 13 March 2019 at 13:04

New developments will be forced to re-provide existing workspace at less than half the market rate

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Contamination sparks calls for residents to have more say over Hackney Wick’s future

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 October 2018 at 14:25

LLDC states fumes which threatened closure of primary school pose “no safety issue for residents”

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Telford Homes announces restart of works at contaminated site

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 15 October 2018 at 17:47

Construction had been halted following complaints of fumes causing nausea and headaches

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Vittoria Wharf: Campaigners launch final bid to halt imminent demolition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 January 2018 at 11:09
Artists and residents from Vittoria Wharf

Local politicians express urgent concerns as Save Hackney Wick claims new bridges were ‘never negotiable’

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Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville criticised for ‘remaining shtum’ on Vittoria Wharf demolition

By Adam Barnett | Friday 22 September 2017 at 09:00

Save Hackney Wick calls on Mayor to use influence over LLDC plans

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‘Senseless’: Hackney Wick campaigners renew calls to halt Vittoria Wharf demolition

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 8 August 2017 at 16:40

Local politicians also express concerns over LLDC’s plans to tear down the site and replace it with a bridge

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Campaigners urge Olympic legacy chiefs to block concrete factory plans

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 August 2016 at 14:39
Impression of regeneration plans for the Olympic Park

Thousands sign petition condemning proposals for three concrete factories and an Asphalt plant at the Olympic Park

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Residents fume at plans to scrap cyclists’ crossing at Olympic Park

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 4 August 2016 at 14:41
Protest on Monier Road bridge

Hundred people brave rain to protest at plans to turn popular Monier Road bridge at the Olympic Park into “dangerous rat-run”

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Vittoria Wharf demolition: Olympic legacy developers have ‘no grasp’ of community, say campaigners

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 29 July 2016 at 12:56
Artists and residents from Vittoria Wharf

Locals are launching a campaign to save the site with three-day Wickstock festival

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Queen’s Yard set for partial demolition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 4 July 2016 at 12:01
Yard Theatre

‘We don’t want no yuppie flats, we’re happy with our rats’

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All aboard! Lea Bridge Station reopens after 31 years

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 17 May 2016 at 12:26

Lea Bridge station, which was closed in 1985, has reopened to passengers

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