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High Street, Stoke Newington: emergency work after rubble rains down from building

The road could be closed to traffic for another week

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Stoke Newington High Street building with scaffolding

Anti-LTN campaigners’ appeal triumph paves way for judicial review

Horrendous Hackney Road Closures set to challenge roll-out of local schemes after High Court ruling overturned

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Anti-LTN campaigners’ appeal triumph paves way for judicial review

Laurence Fox visits Hackney to help promote anti-road closures campaign

Local by-election contender and Horrendous Hackney Road Closures member Niall Crowley insists visit was ‘not an endorsement’ of Fox’s run for London Mayor

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Laurence Fox visits Hackney to help promote anti-road closures campaign

Conservative councillors call for ‘immediate end’ to Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Transport chief Cllr Burke responds to criticism by saying voters who ‘want to make roads less safe and air more polluted’ now have a choice

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

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Labour and Conservative councillors clash following road closure protest

Springfield ward rep says Tories would dismantle low traffic neighbourhoods if elected, which Town Hall transport chief says would only make roads ‘less safe and air less clean’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Labour and Conservative councillors clash following road closure protest

Condemnation and praise as Town Hall announces trial run for highly contentious road closure scheme

Air quality campaigners left ‘devastated’ by decision, while residents on affected rat-runs pleased their ‘voices have been heard’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Condemnation and praise as Town Hall announces trial run for highly contentious road closure scheme

Twenty roads in Haggerston, Hoxton and London Fields to close to through-traffic

Town Hall transport chief defends scheme after residents and businesses raise concerns over the use of experimental traffic orders

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Twenty roads in Haggerston, Hoxton and London Fields to close to through-traffic

‘Don’t tie yourself to one set of options’: Greens accidentally reveal unvarnished position on road closures

Labour transport boss accuses Greens of using contentious road closure scheme as ‘political football’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

‘Don’t tie yourself to one set of options’: Greens accidentally reveal unvarnished position on road closures

Campaigner’s speech at air quality rally sparks Twitter row with Hackney Mayor

Borough leader Philip Glanville in spat with CleanAir4Schools activist Jenna Fansa following her address at a Unicef rally

Author: Hackney Citizen

Campaigner’s speech at air quality rally sparks Twitter row with Hackney Mayor

Road closures: Boost for opponents as scientists reveal ‘toxic school run’ dangers

Clean Air for Schools again calls for council rethink as new study shows children are most exposed to dirty air when at school

Author: Hackney Citizen

Road closures: Boost for opponents as scientists reveal ‘toxic school run’ dangers

Road closures: Fresh calls for a rethink after council admits getting traffic figures wrong

Unfinished analysis puts new estimate on par with campaigners’ – but sides disagree over how much the data could still change

Author: Max Eckersley

Road closures: Fresh calls for a rethink after council admits getting traffic figures wrong

Chaos at Town Hall meeting after ‘disgusted’ resident urges council to scrap Walford Road closures

Pollution debate over William Patten Primary stopped by Speaker’s gavel

Author: Adam Barnett

Chaos at Town Hall meeting after ‘disgusted’ resident urges council to scrap Walford Road closures