Hackney Council will spend over £200million fixing and maintaining the homes it owns this coming financial year alongside £13.6m to fix up the borough’s streets. The council agreed its budget on ...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is yet to establish the specific cause of the inferno. At present they believe it was triggered by an electrical incident. Yet the episode has revived fears around fire ...

Earlier this week the council rubber-stamped its education strategy which pledges to further inclusion and build a ‘child-centred and anti-racist’ model for schools ...

On Tuesday, 3 March, the local authority launched its public consultation on the policy, which flags 15 potential sites for redevelopment. According to the council, the Future Shoreditch Area Action ...

The highly-anticipated Gorton and Denton by-election saw the Green party emerge victorious despite being branded by Labour as “extreme and dangerous”. For some, the result has called into question the ...

Labour has condemned plans by the Green Party to decriminalise all drugs, but is the stance as radical as it appears?

A former Hackney Labour councillor has defected to the Green Party. Cllr Soraya Adejare has served the Brownswood ward for 14 years. Born and raised in Hackney, she has used her platform to advocate ...

L&Q published an article about WGH’s efforts on its website, saying Adelman – along with her partner and fellow WGH leader, Gideon Corby – had been ‘transforming part of the Regent’s Canal into a ...

Megan Life, Assistant Director, Environment and Energy at the Greater London Authority (GLA), has confirmed that City Hall is developing a policy which will attempt to balance any economic benefits ...

“As part of a new six-month trial, operator-initiated facial recognition technology will be used during a limited number of police stops, so that officers can carry out identity checks on location ...

Campaigners have vowed to oppose new plans to convert a historic pub in Victoria Park into a private home – just a year after similar proposals were blocked. An attempt to turn the 400-year-old Albion ...

The Department for Education’s (DfE’s) move towards academisation over the past two decades has created a complex, multi-layered education system in England, comprising an array of school types, each ...