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Marie©DA20: © david.altheer@gmail.com Marie Murray, co-founder Curve Garden, Dalston Ln, Hackney, London E8 081116

Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park

01/19/202101/19/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been

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ChrisWreath©DA20e5: © david.altheer@gmail.com Christmas @ Clarence Pl/Clapton Sq, Hackney London E5, 171220

🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season

12/21/202001/18/2021 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

  IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered

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thames©DA17: graffiti @ Leamouth nr East India Dock Basin on approach to Trinity Buoy Wharf by Thames Newham, London E8 060914 ©

Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in

09/25/202009/25/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS 0

  THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming

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HaggSun©DA15:© david.altheer@gmail.com Haggerston Baths (1903), Whiston Road, Hackney London 260515

Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys

05/05/202005/29/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 1

THE BATTLE to save the swimming pool in the Haggerston Baths buildings has been lost. The hall that accommodates the 15m pool will never again echo

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Whitechapel Foundry can survive — and we’ll show how, say campaigners for ancient bell-maker

12/10/201912/19/2020 ARCHITECTURE, LATEST, NEWS 0

* Update 051220: The proposal to turn London’s Whitechapel legendary bell foundry into a boutique hotel has been ended by government intervention.    

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© david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines

06/20/201802/08/2019 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed

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hackneysubcom©DA18: Hackneycouncil planning subcom town hall Mare St E8 060718 © david.altheer[at]gmail.com

See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting

06/08/2018 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never

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HAC©DA: Village Underground’s Auro, left, wants this former Konak/Savoy Cinema in Kingsland Hi St Dalston #Hackney, NE Lon to be Hackney Arts Centre © david,altheer@gmail,com 250717

As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!

04/26/201808/21/2018 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

* UPDATE 21 August 2018: The venue is due to open next month September 2018 and its name shall be EartH — no, the

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Another park shock as Hackney again comes up against the power of property dealers

03/14/201803/20/2018 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

HACKNEY COUNCIL’S HOUSING POLICY is coming under increasing criticism as developers encroach on the borough’s open spaces, said to comprise more than any other

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Hackney builds a new era on the ruins of a Thatcherite privatisation policy

01/18/201801/18/2018 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

A MULTIMILLION-POUND project to ease Hackney’s housing crisis is about to go to the next stage: shovels and cement. Fourteen developments are planned and

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  • Marie©DA20: © david.altheer@gmail.com Marie Murray, co-founder Curve Garden, Dalston Ln, Hackney, London E8 081116Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park
  • ChrisWreath©DA20e5: © david.altheer@gmail.com Christmas @ Clarence Pl/Clapton Sq, Hackney London E5, 171220🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season
  • KTs©DA13: hardware shop sign Kingsland Rd Dalston London E8 2013 © david.altheer@gmail.comThings we may need but cannot afford: Hackney libraries find a way to let us hire them
  • GeffryeBus©DA20:© DavidAltheer@gmail.com, protesters against Robt Geffrye statue at Museum of the Home, Haggerston, Lon, 301020Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides
  • LonFields©DA14: © david.altheer@gmail.com autumn "wildflowers" London Fields N of Broadway Market Hackney E8 111114A new Hackney hero races into view — and he hopes to inspire other youngsters to do the ride thing
  • crash©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com 1/3 parked vehicles hit by SUV as it screeched thro Dalston, London E8, 181020Midnight madness in Hackney as man crashes SUV into parked cars
  • EMMA©NAWmHardie©NABest woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it
  • NEsign©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com lingering NE sign in Hackney (at the S end of the street) 060420 (poss since removed/stolen)Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council
  • Switch off that engine — or face an £80 fine as Hackney ups its crackdown on cars
  • Shoreditch©DA13:© davidaltheer@gmail.com BBC London dancers @ Shoreditch festival in Hoxton St Lon N1 13 July 2013Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?
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