Posts by Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter
‘Destination of choice’: Hackney Central’s pull with visitors to get major boost as council secures £19m cash injection
Money will be spent on new green space, tree-planting, and revamps for Pembury Circus and the Town Hall square
Read MoreStoke Newington maisonette among number of community spaces being converted back into council housing
‘Clearly we had a surfeit of social housing at one point and now we definitely don’t,’ says planning committee chair
Read More‘So much local support’: Teachers striking over pay force closure of 47 Hackney schools
‘Teachers have had enough of low pay and a lack of funding,’ says local union representative
Read MoreThousands of council tenants facing seven per cent rent hike as housing costs spiral
Town Hall asks residents for feedback on the planned increase by 17 February
Read MoreTwo arrested on suspicion of child neglect over death of seven-year-old girl
Police took a man, 49, and a woman, 50, into custody
Read MoreHigh Street, Stoke Newington: emergency work after rubble rains down from building
The road could be closed to traffic for another week
Read MoreIncrease in councillors’ allowances approved
Every councillor can claim a basic annual allowance of £12,014.
Read MoreAnti-road closure campaigners raise £10,000 court costs and challenge council to donate to charities
Horrendous Hackney Road Closures appealed on social media to raise the cash
Read MoreKeep NHS land for NHS use, say campaigners over St Leonard’s Hospital sell-off fears
Council should call on the government for more funding for buildings upkeep, according to Hackney Keep Our NHS Public
Read MoreSafeguarding expert warning over children in unregistered Hackney ‘schools’
‘The influence that we have is fundamentally undermined by a whack-a-mole approach’
Read MoreLTN extension plan: Motor vehicles to face restrictions on three quarters of Hackney’s streets
‘It’s a really ambitious plan to reduce pollution’, says Cllr Mete Coban
Read More‘Completely unacceptable’: Cyclists demand ‘better alternative’ after Network Rail shuts major link between Hackney and Islington
Campaigners demand better alternative route to railway bridge that has been shut for safety reasons
Read MoreNHS campaigners urge council to fight for beloved hospital in Hoxton – before it is ‘forever lost’
Activists ask Town Hall to lobby government for cash to ensure St Leonard’s is kept for patients
Read MoreUnion calls off tomorrow’s library strike in Hackney as ‘gesture of goodwill’ – but February action set to go ahead
Unison says it wants to ‘give management more time to work on compulsory redundancies and make other positive changes’
Read More‘Simply not good enough’: Child safeguarding expert urges police and other bodies to back up anti-racism pledges with evidence
Jim Gamble says organisations need to ‘evidence what they have done and who they have challenged’
Read MoreFire safety: Front doors to be replaced at thousands of ‘highest-risk’ council homes
£30m scheme will see Town Hall install doors designed to withstand fire and smoke for 30 minutes
Read MoreDe Beauvoir residents hit out at boundary changes that could see them ‘shunted into Islington’
Voters in the ward could be faced with electing politicians in two boroughs
Read More‘Hands off our jobs’: Library staff across Hackney go on strike amid dispute over council cuts
Unison members take first of four days of action in an effort to protect jobs, with Unite set to follow suit
Read MoreLibrary staff to go on strike over job cuts: four dates announced
Town hall bosses are planning a shake-up of jobs – they could cut 76 roles and create 57 new ones.
Read MoreThe kindness of strangers: thousands donated for Winter Toy Appeal
‘We reached 5,040 children and we’re really relieved to have been able to help this many in what was a really tough year’
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