Groups of five or more people can apply for verges, vacant plots and land around council buildings, with the first ten schemes to be approved this year
Labour has used the Green administration's 100-day mark to accuse it of neglecting repairs, buses and nursery fees. The mayor's office calls the charge sheet an 'inaccurate shopping list'
From a £53m funding gap to a fight over single-sex spaces, Hackney's first Green mayor on rearranging the furniture and setting a new tone at the Town Hall
Town Hall asks parents for evidence to present to the government, delivering half a manifesto pledge while a promised review of fee rises inherited from Labour remains unfinished
Follow-up letter to Mayor of Haifa extends de-twinning consultation by a week, as council tells the Citizen the date was an ‘error’ it corrected as soon as it was noticed
Zoë Garbett claims victory after London mayor agrees to scrap his 20 per cent affordable housing floor and restore Hackney’s threshold to 35 per cent — though not until 2028
Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed — but the party insists they witnessed no violence
Hackney Council has said it has not applied for a warrant to remove a family with an autistic child from a home they have occupied for nearly 20 years, disputing several accounts of a case the borough's Green Mayor backed before taking office.
