On 22 June, the council announced that Christopher Addison House, which had “stood largely empty for six years”, would be transformed into a gym and fitness studio serving residents affected by the ...

Photograph: Hackney Council. Hackney Council has begun reworking how its pension fund is invested, with the aim of excluding comp ...

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

London Assembly. City Hall has unanimously backed a motion to introduce a “Bill of Rights” for bus drivers following a swelte ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Photograph: Bets Off Blackstock / LDRS. Deputy prime minister David Lammy has come out against plans for a 24-hour adult ...

The Green party has won a by-election in Hackney triggered by Zoë Garbett’s recent mayoral victory at the May local elections. Candidate Manal Massalha will represent Dalston ward for the party after ...

The Green party has held the Hackney Central ward seat in a by-election triggered by one of the party’s councillors resigning shortly after the May elections. The party’s candidate Noah Birksted-Breen ...

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 ...

When Hackney Labour rewrote the council’s constitution last spring, the loudest objection from the opposition benches was not really about minutes and motions. It was about a principle: that the rules ...