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Council consults on Tyssen Street greening as campaigners cry foul over play area

Low Traffic Hackney backs new trees and benches at Hoxton Trust garden but disputes the council's account of what happens to the car bays

Author: Niall Holden

Council consults on Tyssen Street greening as campaigners cry foul over play area

Family's five-year battle over collapsing council flat: 'It's dangerous'

Doudou Mpanda says repeated repairs at his Haggerston home have failed to stop leaks that have caved in a bathroom wall and left his children too frightened to use the toilet

Author: Niall Holden

Hackney to open two children's homes as council moves to end reliance on private care

Partnership with charity Action for Children aims to keep looked-after children in the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney to open two children's homes as council moves to end reliance on private care

Hackney Council looks to divest pension fund from firms linked to human rights abuses

Council's Green administration begins overhauling its investment strategy to exclude companies operating in territories condemned by international bodies

Author: Hackney Citizen

Photograph of Mayor Garbett and Cllr Castello-Cortes

Hackney among boroughs warning climate change could cost London £15bn a year by 2050

Worsening heatwaves, floods and drought will hit unless government acts, warns a partnership of 12 central boroughs including Hackney

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney among boroughs warning climate change could cost London £15bn a year by 2050

Hackney bought 43 homes for temporary housing — but kept no record of who was living in them

The council is one of a dozen London authorities buying up properties for emergency housing with no knowledge of whether tenants were evicted to make way for the sales, an investigation has found

Author: Ben Lynch, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney bought 43 homes for temporary housing — but kept no record of who was living in them

Leader: Fix the politics — and the plumbing

Labour rewrote Hackney's rulebook to suit itself. Then it lost. The Greens should learn the lesson, not repeat it

Author: Hackney Citizen

Last phase of Britannia Project on hold as council contractor enters administration

The final stage of a major regeneration project in Hackney has stalled after the lead contractor fell into administration following a High Court ruling.

Author: Hackney Citizen

Last phase of Britannia Project on hold as council contractor enters administration

Leader - 'Lives, not spreadsheets': Hackney's new mayor is right to doubt the dashboard — but on climate, targets are how we survive

Standing in the council chamber at the first full meeting since the Greens' landslide, Hackney's new mayor set out a governing creed in plain terms

Author: Hackney Citizen