The borough’s Green administration approved Phases 4 and 5 of the 30-year Woodberry Down regeneration at the first cabinet meeting chaired by new Mayor Zoë Garbett since last week’s local elections, ...
Photograph: LDRS Hackney Council failed to renew a major deal for housing repairs for more than six years despite internal warnings about the decline of the borough’s social homes, the Local Democracy ...
A former Hackney councillor, newly knighted for his work on racial equality, will return to the borough this week to chair the opening night of a documentary about the black and working-class people ...
Under the arrangements set by the previous Labour administration, there is no requirement — and has been no discussion — about applying the council’s Climate Action Plan to the redevelopment of the ...
Hackney’s opposition group has cast doubt on the new Mayor’s claim to have repurposed an “empty” council building as part of her community wealth-building project. On 22 June, the council announced ...
Hackney Council. Hackney Council is to open two new children’s homes in a bid to keep looked-after children close to their sc ...
Hackney has more secure on-street cycle storage than almost any other London borough, yet new research suggests the private bike spaces developers are required to build inside blocks of flats are ...
Ishaque Ali. Photograph: supplied by Ansar Ahmed Ullah. The racist murder of Altab Ali in May 1978 is widely recognised as a turning point for the Bengali community in East London ...
Around 70 firefighters and ten fire engines were called to a hotel fire on Amhurst Road yesterday afternoon, in an incident that forced the evacuation of 16 people but no injuries were reported. The ...
Photograph: Hackney Council. Hackney Council has begun reworking how its pension fund is invested, with the aim of excluding comp ...
Climate change will cost London up to £15bn a year by 2050 unless drastic action is taken at all levels of government, according to a new report from a group of central boroughs that includes Hackney.