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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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