Mayoral candidates for the Green and Labour parties agreed to several pledges set out by local business owners and community activists at a ‘Unite with the Guild’ accountability assembly event on ...

A local gardening organisation is looking to raise £450,000 to build a “state-of-the-art” education hub on its Dagenham farm. Growing Communities, a Hackney-based social enterprise, is a community-led ...

Reform UK’s mayoral candidate for Hackney, Vahid Almasi, spoke with the Hackney Citizen in an exclusive interview ahead of the forthcoming local elections on 7 May. With Reform UK having never held ...

Hackney Council is set to pay consultants over £15m to find out the scale of fire hazards in buildings across its housing estates. Last Monday (20 April) the council awarded two £7.8m contracts to ...

A public health building in Hackney is one of the most endangered listed sites in the country, a conservation charity has said. Hackney’s Grade II listed municipal disinfecting station, thought to be ...

Londoners will finally see the light at the end of the tunnel in 2026 when it comes to the city’s enduring accommodation crisis, the deputy mayor responsible for housing has vowed. Tom Copley, Sir ...

The push to “build, baby, build” as housing secretary Steve Reed recently said won’t necessarily solve the city’s housing crisis because supply is not the primary issue, according to new research.