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 Hackney Council has opened a consultation on plans to redesign ...

Hackney Council spent more than £10,000 on parking penalties and charges over a 12-month period, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal. Data on council payments below £250 obtained ...

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, ...

A family living on the ground floor of a Haggerston council block say they are scared for their lives at Bryant Court, where they say leaks left unresolved for more than five years have caused the ...

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 ...

Hackney residents can vote in two elections on 7 May – for candidates standing as ward councillors and also for those contesting the borough’s directly-elected mayoralty ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hackney Council. Hackney Council is to open two new children’s homes in a bid to keep looked-after children close to their sc ...