* UPDATE 060317: Hackney says its plan had always been to provide hard copies of major planning applications on request, and to require
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The most important buildings in the world: they are in Hackney and they are happening now
* Update 080218: The world’s highest wooden building, 350m tall, will be completed in Tokyo by 2041 if manufacturer Sumitomo Forestry’s plan succeeds. Unlike
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Old Dalston Theatre poster is saved for the nation as Museum of London steps in where Hackney hesitated
THE PEOPLE OF HACKNEY will be able to see a superb memento of the lost theatre of Dalston now that the Museum Of London
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Haggerston Baths will stay dry. A century of serving Hackney ends as pool-saving plan sinks
* UPDATE Monday 271117: the bid for the 250-year lease by Castleforge Partners, a private equity firm, was today considered by Hackney council, which Loving
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Hackney youth club is out on the streets as Dalston developer submits plans for prime site
* UPDATE 240417: An application, 2017/1193, for nine above-ground flats has finally been made. Comments can be sent online until late next month, May 2017. The application 2016/4223 for the basement
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A Stoke Newington school for the poor is converted to a haven for the funds of the cash-rich
THIS HANDSOME late-Georgian Stoke Newington school was built in 1837 for the poor. Almost two centuries on, it has been converted to homes for
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You’re barred: behind the railings last orders are called on a traditional Hackney boozer
THE BUSINESSMAN WHO owns the Acorn has stonewalled Loving Dalston’s request for openness about his planned demolition of the pub, which has had a loyal local
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Stylish beach house sinks because it is too close to Haggerston heritage pool swamped by decay
HAGGERSTON BATHS has been allowed to fall into decay over 15 years. Yet concern for it has been cited by a public body after
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The 158-year-old tin tabernacle of Hackney is to go under the auctioneer’s online hammer
THE LITTLE corrugated-iron church, above, in Hackney is to go to auction with a guide price of less than £2 million. Erected for Presbyterians in
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Time travel: a trip back to the past of Hackney
THE DANDIES above are part of a link between Eton and Hackney that developed in the 1880s. As you will find out if you hear the
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