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Author: Hackney Citizen

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Greens and Labour trade blows over London Fields paddling pool

Cabinet member Jacob Cable says the pool 'sat closed and derelict' under Labour, as Cllr Anntoinette Bramble accuses the new administration of offering 'kind platitudes' instead of a firm commitment

Author: Hackney Citizen

Greens and Labour trade blows over London Fields paddling pool

'Outdated' Clapton leisure centre closes for three years for ‘ambitious’ renovations

Kings Hall Leisure Centre will close later this month before renovation work starts at the beginning of next year

Author: Gabriel Stewart

West Reservoir swimmers fight to save communal changing rooms as council revamp gets underway

Petition launched by campaigners who worry community ethos will be lost

Author: Hackney Citizen

West Reservoir swimmers fight to save communal changing rooms as council revamp gets underway

Town Hall presses ahead with King’s Hall revamp

Designs to upgrade deteriorating Grade II-listed building rubber-stamped by council

Author: Hackney Citizen

Town Hall presses ahead with King’s Hall revamp

Jan Fuscoe: Awards triumph for East London Waterworks Park shows ‘huge public appetite’

Community-led vision to turn disused land into a green oasis won People’s Choice at Reimagine London event

Author: Jan Fuscoe

Jan Fuscoe: Awards triumph for East London Waterworks Park shows ‘huge public appetite’

Campaign to create East London’s first wild swimming pond launches petition to save land from developers

East London Waterworks Park is rallying support for its vision of a ‘brownfield rainforest’

Author: Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter

Campaign to create East London’s first wild swimming pond launches petition to save land from developers

‘Truly inspiring precedent’: East London’s first wild swimming pond inches closer as campaign group glides past £500k crowdfunding target

East London Waterworks Park campaigners now have their sights set on purchasing the land for their ‘brownfield rainforest’

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Truly inspiring precedent’: East London’s first wild swimming pond inches closer as campaign group glides past £500k crowdfunding target

Leisure centre prices to increase by four per cent across Hackney from January

Finance boss Cllr Rob Chapman says decision, sparked by rising fuel costs, was ‘not taken lightly’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Leisure centre prices to increase by four per cent across Hackney from January

Council ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’

Town Hall procurement committee set to approve £35m plans – with ‘doing nothing simply not an option’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Council ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’

‘Once-in-a-generation chance’: Crowdfunder for wild swimming pond in East London smashes past the halfway mark

Volunteer-led campaign has raised £250k in a matter of months

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Once-in-a-generation chance’: Crowdfunder for wild swimming pond in East London smashes past the halfway mark

Crowdfunder for East London’s first wild swimming pond reaches important milestone

Volunteers hoping to transform a disused water depot in Lower Clapton are almost halfway to their target

Author: Hackney Citizen

Crowdfunder for East London’s first wild swimming pond reaches important milestone