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Finsbury Park campaigners fear hotelier is trying to ‘game the system’ with demolition plans

Application to bulldoze four Victorian buildings submitted just weeks before new conservation area is expected to be approved

Author: Clara Hernanz

Finsbury Park campaigners fear hotelier is trying to ‘game the system’ with demolition plans

Titbits – Big Bang blares and political prayers

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Titbits – Doorbells, ice pops and electable chin locks

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Help pick out local landmarks to ‘preserve Hackney’s character’

Council asks residents to nominate their favourites for its heritage list

Author: Hackney Citizen

Help pick out local landmarks to ‘preserve Hackney’s character’

Hackney: portrait of a community 1967 – 2017, book review: Pillar of Society

The Hackney Society is celebrating 50 eventful years with a new book full of fascinating essays, from a broad church of Hackney citizens

Author: Hackney Citizen

The Holly Grove estate, nicknamed The Snake, was demolished in 1998. Photograph: Levitt Bernstein

Turn up for the books: we look forward to an eventful October for Hackney’s independent bookshops

The borough’s bookshops are increasingly staging events to get readers off Amazon, out of their houses and through their doors. We preview a few such bashes in this look at the lay of the literary land

Author: Hackney Citizen

Refurbished: Broadway Bookshop has taken an opportunity to ring the changes

Finsbury Park residents up in arms over plans to destroy Victorian houses

Developer Rainbow Properties wants to tear down row of period homes to make way for flats

Author: Hackney Citizen

New plan to demolish Acorn pub emerges just weeks after it won protected status

Scheme, which Lisa Shell from the Hackney Society says will cause ‘harm’, follows earlier, unsuccessful application to bulldoze Victorian building.

Author: Hackney Citizen

Residents slam ‘epic hubris’ of council approving its own application to build two high rise towers

Councillor says plans would never be approved if submitted by a private developer

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘A massive slap in the face’: residents slam council’s plans to build high rise towers on top of schools

Campaigners fume at ‘lack of transparency’ in planning process ahead of vital meeting over high-rise developments in Hoxton and Hackney Downs

Author: Hackney Citizen

Artist’s impression of the Tiger Way development on Hackney Downs

St Augustine’s Tower: ‘it was Buckingham Palace for pigeons’

St Augustine’s Tower is Hackney’s oldest building and a symbol of the borough. But for years the building lay redundant with its doors locked

Author: Hackney Citizen

Walk this way – history buffs take a tour of De Beauvoir

This Victorian enclave of Hackney boasts Jacobean-styled finery as well as architectural oddities

Author: Hackney Citizen