Posts Tagged ‘Woodberry Down’
Space found for socially rented flats in new Woodberry Down block
‘It’s a pretty good deal to get, because the figures at the start were slightly different,’ says community organisation chair
Read MoreLeader – Home for Christmas
Amid a housing crisis, the pressure on local charities is growing – now they need your help more than ever
Read More‘Big step forward’: Hackney Council to get half of its power from renewables by April 2019
Town Hall proposes working with other local authorities ‘to put rocket boosters under investment in renewable energy’
Read More‘Grim reading’: Net loss of hundreds of social rent homes expected under Woodberry Down plans
Town Hall contest figures though unable to directly refute them due to poor record-keeping in the 2000s
Read MoreThe Naturalist, Woodberry Down, food review: ‘The toilets are nice’
Compliments were hard to find after slow service and mediocre food at the borough’s new pub
Read MoreTown Hall backs campaign to resettle 10,000 child refugees
Doha Al-Halaq, 15, addresses packed town hall meeting calling on local authority to pledge its support
Read MoreCouncillors reject government’s ‘end of austerity’ claim
‘We’ve been told that austerity is coming to an end. It doesn’t feel like it’s over here’
Read MoreLiberal Democrats warn against ‘complacency’ on violent crime
Council community safety chief hits back at proposals for joint violence reduction unit with Tower Hamlets as ‘out of touch’
Read MoreCommunity safety chief responds to forum on gun and knife crime
‘We take tackling violence extremely seriously – in doing so, it’s important that we listen to a range of voices, experiences and views’
Read MoreWoodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition
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
Read MoreCladding similar to Grenfell Tower found on Woodberry Down estate block
Mayor Glanville says cladding is being removed ‘immediately’ as a precaution
Read MoreHackney students triumph in prestigious business contest
Skinners’ Academy pupils win Prince’s Trust Enterprise Challenge after close-run competition with five other schools
Read MoreGrowing a community – the never-ending story of Woodberry Down
Simon Donovan of Manor House Development Trust talks about the challenges of Woodberry Down, community, and why his job is as easy as ABCD
Read MoreWhat is the future for Harringay's warehouse district?
Warehouse district faces challenge of devising a blueprint that can defend artistic ecosystem against wide-scale regeneration
Read MoreFacelifts meet resistance as developers begin ‘intensification’ of Finsbury Park
Developments threaten to turn the Victorian rail hub into a clutch of high-rise towers
Read MoreLeaflet watch: Conservatives’ ‘absurd’ Seven Sisters Road one-way claim
Party’s Woodberry Down election literature suggests Labour plans to turn busy six-lane dual carriageway into single lane street
Read MoreHackney Council refuses to release report into alleged irregularities at Best Start federated schools
Mystery still surrounds demise of Greg Wallace as ‘superhead’ of Best Start Federation primaries
Read More‘Gagging orders could frustrate Greg Wallace investigation’
Unions warn of legally-binding clauses, but Hackney Council says it has no authority to set them aside
Read MoreHackney residents prepare for ‘last stand’ over Woodberry Down regeneration
Plans to demolish homes will be contested at Hackney Town Hall
Read MoreSkinners Academy pioneers 21st century approach with new building
An old school with a new twist officially opens on Woodberry Down
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