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

12/10/201912/10/2019 ARCHITECTURE, LATEST, NEWS 0

  THE WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY, above, can continue to do what it has done for more than 400 years: make the kind of bells

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

06/20/201802/08/2019 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

* 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 0

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 0

* 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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HaggBathsInt: Haggerston Baths Whiston Road E2 8BA deshokto0615 © DavidAltheer@gmailcom

All hope for Haggerston Baths has drained as Hackney sells lease to an equity fund

11/29/201708/21/2018 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, SPORT

  “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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DalstonLnTce©DA1117 “Dalston Lane Terrace” Hackney E8 3AH 011117 © david,altheer@gmail,com See also pic of door from interior

What’s it cost to live behind the shop in a faux Georgian terrace in Dalston? Exclusive pix

11/12/201711/14/2017 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

  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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Matthias0815: Funday Entertainment-owned St Matthias youth club, 101 Dalston Lane E8 1NH, 280815 © DavidAltheer[at]gmai

A Hackney developer says she has given her crowdfund investors the chance of an 85% profit

07/17/201707/18/2017 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

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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PlaqueBabs: Dame Barbara Windsor inaugurator of Hackney Empire Walk of Fame 250517 © david.altheer[ a t] gmail.com

Take a walk on the fame side: Dame Barbara Windsor sets Hackney Empire on a new path

05/25/201705/26/2017 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

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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