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Posts Tagged ‘planning’

Council unveils ‘safer’ Pembury junction – but campaigners accuse it of abandoning its ‘leadership on cycling’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 25 November 2024 at 18:47

Local cyclists, still reeling over decision to press on with controversial redesign, claim Town Hall is being ‘dishonest’

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Morning Lane campaigners quit community panel over ‘corrupt council process’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 17 October 2024 at 17:41

Activists blast Town Hall’s ‘dishonesty’ and ‘broken promises’ over central Hackney development

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‘Very risky’: Campaigners say development plans next to Hackney Marshes could increase flooding

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 9 October 2024 at 13:49

Housing proposal by Waltham Forest Council would impact ‘ecologically sensitive’ marshland, activists warn

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Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of ‘excluding residents from key decisions’ on future of Tesco site

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 2 August 2024 at 18:44

Activists say Town Hall has ‘insulted community’ in row over future of major development in Hackney Central

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Campaigners’ joy as council blocks plan to turn 400-year-old pub into flats

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 5 July 2024 at 11:30

‘Any suggestion that the Albion is not viable holds no water,’ says Campaign for Real Ale representative

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Hackney Council ‘delighted’ after winning planning award for its low carbon guide

By Josef Steen | Tuesday 25 June 2024 at 11:49

Town Hall’s sustainability toolkit for council planners across London recognised at Planning Awards 2024

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Campaign to create East London’s first wild swimming pond launches petition to save land from developers

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 12:30

East London Waterworks Park is rallying support for its vision of a ‘brownfield rainforest’

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Council plans for Stamford Hill approved in face of Tory criticisms

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 March 2024 at 10:13
Stamford Hill Street

Family-sized homes and community infrastructure form part of the Town Hall’s proposals to improve the area

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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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Titbits – Robot manacles and mysterious animals

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 October 2023 at 13:34
Titbits bird

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

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Dalston church hall could be converted into workspace for small businesses

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 31 August 2023 at 11:38

Amazing Grace Worship Centre supports the plan, with church set to move to new community centre

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Shoreditch gallery ‘devastated’ after being told to remove ‘iconic’ rooftop sign

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 20 June 2023 at 14:57

Jealous Gallery has recieved backing from major artists in its bid to save the lettering

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Titbits – Slick and tyred

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2023 at 10:35
Titbits bird

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

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‘Destination of choice’: Hackney Central’s pull with visitors to get major boost as council secures £19m cash injection

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 7 February 2023 at 13:34
Artist Veronica Ryan with her sculptures

Money will be spent on new green space, tree-planting, and revamps for Pembury Circus and the Town Hall square

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Stoke Newington maisonette among number of community spaces being converted back into council housing

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 6 February 2023 at 19:06

‘Clearly we had a surfeit of social housing at one point and now we definitely don’t,’ says planning committee chair

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‘Using all means at our disposal’: Fifteen Hackney sites earmarked for council housing – as scheme to build more than 1,000 new homes kicks on

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 14 December 2022 at 09:36

Town Hall ‘looking for suitable locations to build homes across all our land’ despite challenging financial landscape

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Morning Lane campaigners at odds with Hackney Mayor over ‘fresh start’ for major town centre redevelopment

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 28 October 2022 at 17:21

Members of Morning Lane People’s Space make deputation to the council calling for social rent housing pledge

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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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Developers with ambitions for ‘best office space in Hackney’ want permission for more space

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 October 2022 at 17:34
Hackney Town Hall

Plans for the Edge were approved last year, but team behind it are now asking for an extra floor

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After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 10 October 2022 at 09:14

Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’

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