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Chatsworth Road residents say new bus gate has caused 'severe disruption to our lives'

Critics say that rather than reducing traffic, the change has simply pushed cars onto smaller residential streets nearby and made congestion worse

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Council 'leads energy revolution' in pioneering scheme to install solar panels on social housing

Hackney Council has teamed up with specialists at Emergent Energy to install solar panels on social housing blocks, creating a microgrid residents can use

Author: Gabriel Stewart

Hackney Council rubber-stamps ‘anti-racism’ strategy for schools amid concerns over risk of harm to vulnerable pupils

Earlier this week the council rubber-stamped its education strategy which pledges to further inclusion and build a 'child-centred and anti-racist' model for schools

Author: Hackney Citizen

Community mosaic group 'faces eviction after more than a decade' from Hackney Downs Pavilion

Hackney Mosaic Project has met at the pavilion several times a week for more than 10 years

Author: Joshua Haining

Coroner warns Hackney landlord to act following six-month-old boy’s death

An inquest into the death of Baby Abdullah Ali prompted the coroner to flag concerns over knee-high thick and black mould in his family's overcrowded flat

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney faces 'complete exhaustion of reserves' without 'urgent funding' in Budget says councillor

Campaigners descended on Hackney Town Hall on Wednesday (26 November), the same day the Chancellor made her Budget

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof speaking outside Hackney Town Hall

Council's call for rent controls 'would not lead to the skies collapsing'

Labour-run Hackney Council said the government needs to go further than Renters Rights Bill by empowering it to cap private rents

Author: Hackney Citizen

Nine social houses to be built on Clapton estate as council tackles housing backlog

The social houses are the first to get the go-ahead of more than 300 the council plans to build in the coming years

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Hackney Council issues urgent communication amid 'critical' cyber threat risk

Multiple London councils have been targeted in a cyber attack over the past 24 to 48 hours, and while Hackney is not thought to have been hit, staff are being warned to take precautions

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Residents slam 'ill-considered' council plans to close junction to cars

More than 3,000 vehicles drive along Scriven Street every day, which Hackney Council says creates a high risk of collisions between turning traffic and cyclists

Author: Lizzie McAllister

The junction between Queensbridge Road and Scriven Street

Fed-up residents call on councils and Thames Water to clean up ‘filthy’ New River

Campaigners say more needs to be done to keep the section of the New River that flows through Hackney clean and litter-free

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Inside Hackney's green economy six years after council declared climate emergency

In 2019, Hackney Council declared a climate emergency and vowed to rebuild a greener borough. Six years on, how close are they to fulfilling that pledge?

Author: Sam Foxell