News - Hackney Citizen (Page 19)

Council responds to watchdog review over social care delays

A recent Care Quality Commission review gave Hackney’s adult social care services a ‘Requires Improvement’ rating

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mossbourne's chair of trustees quits in first major shake-up at beleaguered academy chain

Henry Colthurst, who had been on the trust's board since 2014, resigned earlier this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney family facing eviction given reprieve as council warrant suspended

Charity Oppong and her children have lived at the property for nearly two decades

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney family facing eviction given reprieve as council warrant suspended

'Highly questionable': Mossbourne Federation spent £400,000 of public money on legal fees amid safeguarding probe

The multi-academy trust forked out the sum for its own barrister-led review and on hiring solicitors to handle questions about treatment of pupils at Mossbourne Victoria Park academy

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council budget – what it means for you

The council agreed its budget on Wednesday (4 March)

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fire at council-run flat reignites safety fears

A fire on 27 February has reignited safety fears at the housing block

Author: Hackney Citizen

New Shoreditch growth plan could create ‘up to 11,000 jobs’ says council

The proposals could provide Shoreditch with '30 aircraft hangars' worth of commercial floorspace and hundreds of new homes

Author: Hackney Citizen

Former Labour councillor defects to Green party during council's annual budget meeting

First elected as a Dalston ward councillor in 2014, Soraya Adejare has represented Brownswood residents since 2022

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Former Labour councillor defects to Green party during council's annual budget meeting

Greens on drugs - as extreme as it seems?

Labour has condemned plans by the Green Party to decriminalise all drugs, but is the stance as radical as it appears?

Author: James Barnes

City Hall to introduce new data centre policy amid environmental concerns

The Greater London Authority's Assistant Director for Environment and Energy confirmed City Hall is developing a new policy which will attempt to balance the economic benefits and environmental damage of the data centres

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Rewilding group ‘devastated’ as Kingsland Basin ‘silenced of its birdsong’ by maintenance work

The Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston (WGH) say their efforts to support wildlife living in and around the Basin have been thwarted after grounds maintenance workers cleared the area of vegetation

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Ridley Road Shopping Village to close following ‘ongoing antisocial behaviour’

The indoor market in Dalston will be temporarily shut from 31 March 2026

Author: Lizzie McAllister