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Posts Tagged ‘Woodberry Down’

Space found for socially rented flats in new Woodberry Down block

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 11 December 2018 at 14:22

‘It’s a pretty good deal to get, because the figures at the start were slightly different,’ says community organisation chair

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Leader – Home for Christmas

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 December 2018 at 10:53
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Amid a housing crisis, the pressure on local charities is growing – now they need your help more than ever

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‘Big step forward’: Hackney Council to get half of its power from renewables by April 2019

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 November 2018 at 23:57

Town Hall proposes working with other local authorities ‘to put rocket boosters under investment in renewable energy’

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‘Grim reading’: Net loss of hundreds of social rent homes expected under Woodberry Down plans

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 15 November 2018 at 10:03

Town Hall contest figures though unable to directly refute them due to poor record-keeping in the 2000s

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The Naturalist, Woodberry Down, food review: ‘The toilets are nice’

By Lizzie Deane | Wednesday 14 November 2018 at 14:44

Compliments were hard to find after slow service and mediocre food at the borough’s new pub

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Town Hall backs campaign to resettle 10,000 child refugees

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 1 November 2018 at 16:13

Doha Al-Halaq, 15, addresses packed town hall meeting calling on local authority to pledge its support

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Councillors reject government’s ‘end of austerity’ claim

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 30 October 2018 at 14:55
Hackney Town Hall

‘We’ve been told that austerity is coming to an end. It doesn’t feel like it’s over here’

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Liberal Democrats warn against ‘complacency’ on violent crime

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 1 October 2018 at 17:00

Council community safety chief hits back at proposals for joint violence reduction unit with Tower Hamlets as ‘out of touch’

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Community safety chief responds to forum on gun and knife crime

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 August 2018 at 15:31
Caroline Selman

‘We take tackling violence extremely seriously – in doing so, it’s important that we listen to a range of voices, experiences and views’

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Woodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 August 2017 at 17:13
Peter Gosnell in front of two of his pastel works. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies

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Cladding similar to Grenfell Tower found on Woodberry Down estate block

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 26 June 2017 at 13:33

Mayor Glanville says cladding is being removed ‘immediately’ as a precaution

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Hackney students triumph in prestigious business contest

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 May 2017 at 15:06

Skinners’ Academy pupils win Prince’s Trust Enterprise Challenge after close-run competition with five other schools

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Growing a community – the never-ending story of Woodberry Down

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 November 2015 at 15:53

Simon Donovan of Manor House Development Trust talks about the challenges of Woodberry Down, community, and why his job is as easy as ABCD

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What is the future for Harringay's warehouse district?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 June 2015 at 10:00

Warehouse district faces challenge of devising a blueprint that can defend artistic ecosystem against wide-scale regeneration

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Facelifts meet resistance as developers begin ‘intensification’ of Finsbury Park

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 April 2015 at 10:39

Developments threaten to turn the Victorian rail hub into a clutch of high-rise towers

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Leaflet watch: Conservatives’ ‘absurd’ Seven Sisters Road one-way claim

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 May 2014 at 12:28

Party’s Woodberry Down election literature suggests Labour plans to turn busy six-lane dual carriageway into single lane street

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Hackney Council refuses to release report into alleged irregularities at Best Start federated schools

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 February 2014 at 10:32

Mystery still surrounds demise of Greg Wallace as ‘superhead’ of Best Start Federation primaries

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‘Gagging orders could frustrate Greg Wallace investigation’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 September 2013 at 15:09

Unions warn of legally-binding clauses, but Hackney Council says it has no authority to set them aside

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Hackney residents prepare for ‘last stand’ over Woodberry Down regeneration

By Adam Barnett | Wednesday 31 July 2013 at 17:38

Plans to demolish homes will be contested at Hackney Town Hall

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Skinners Academy pioneers 21st century approach with new building

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 April 2011 at 09:06
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An old school with a new twist officially opens on Woodberry Down

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