* 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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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
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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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
* 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
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
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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All hope for Haggerston Baths has drained as Hackney sells lease to an equity fund
“NEW TENANT FOR HAGGERSTON Baths” was the dull title of an important Hackney council press release. Yet its very understatement made it eye-catching.
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What’s it cost to live behind the shop in a faux Georgian terrace in Dalston? Exclusive pix
THIS IS WHAT HACKNEY council insisted should replace a Georgian terrace in Dalston Lane. The terrace was crumbling by the time Hackney assigned
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A Hackney developer says she has given her crowdfund investors the chance of an 85% profit
WHEN the loan rate that guides UK lenders is 0.25%, a deal that offers investors a return of 10% is usually treated with great
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Take a walk on the fame side: Dame Barbara Windsor sets Hackney Empire on a new path
LONDON ICON and lifelong beauty Dame Barbara Windsor today launched the Hackney Empire Walk of Fame. The Carry On movie series and EastEnders actress unveiled a
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Queen of all she surveys, a noisy road in Dalston: restored monarch again rules TV-famed old pub
LOVING DALSTON’S CAMPAIGN for the sign that once hung from the Dalston pub celebrated as the Queen Vic in BBC1’s EastEnders has succeeded. True, it
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