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Another park shock as Hackney again comes up against the power of property dealers
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Hackney builds a new era on the ruins of a Thatcherite privatisation policy
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A Hackney developer says she has given her crowdfund investors the chance of an 85% profit
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Take a walk on the fame side: Dame Barbara Windsor sets Hackney Empire on a new path
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Queen of all she surveys, a noisy road in Dalston: restored monarch again rules TV-famed old pub
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Hackney in running for planning Oscars, even though the public have often been unable to see the plans
* 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
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