News - Hackney Citizen (Page 7)

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

Greens accused of U-turn as they approve Woodberry Down 'double decant' to avoid £13.5m overrun

Up to 32 council households face being moved twice under a schedule signed off at Mayor Zoë Garbett's first cabinet — despite the Greens' past attacks on the estate's demolition-led regeneration

Author: Hackney Citizen

Revealed: Hackney went nearly seven years without a housing repairs contract as homes decayed

Council missed an entire structural repairs cycle after its main contractor deal lapsed in 2019 — a gap insiders say left tenants in damp and mould

Author: Hackney Citizen

Sir Patrick Vernon to lead Rio talk as film spotlights black and working-class health researchers

A new documentary charting the journeys of three professors and a PhD student into health research opens with a free screening at Dalston’s Rio Cinema

Author: Elspeth Rees

Labour accuses Mayor Garbett of claiming credit for gym plans it drew up

Opposition says the conversion of 'empty' Christopher Addison House into a stopgap gym predates the Green administration's Who Owns Hackney project

Author: Hackney Citizen

Labour accuses Mayor Garbett of claiming credit for gym plans it drew up

Hackney bus drivers among 1,900 balloted for strike as London Assembly backs Bill of Rights

Clapton and Stamford Hill depots are among 10 facing strike ballots over 'unbearable' heat, as City Hall unites behind a dozen new protections for drivers

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney bus drivers among 1,900 balloted for strike as London Assembly backs Bill of Rights

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 leads London on street cycle storage — but City Hall told private bike spaces in new flats sit mostly empty

As Sadiq Khan faces calls to loosen cycle parking rules for new developments, research shows three-quarters of spaces lie unused across the capital — even as Hackney residents wait for on-street hangars

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney leads London on street cycle storage — but City Hall told private bike spaces in new flats sit mostly empty

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

Deputy PM joins fight against ‘24/7’ Blackstock Road betting shop

David Lammy has thrown his weight behind residents opposing plans for a round-the-clock gaming centre near Finsbury Park, warning it would be ’hugely detrimental’ to the community

Author: Patrick Cardwell

Photograph of David Lammy with Bets Off Blackstock campaigners