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Woodberry Down Fun Day draws crowds
OVER 400 local people attended the Woodberry Down’s 5th Annual Fun Day recently in Hackney, getting a chance to find out more about how to live healthily and engage in the community.
Residents met with staff from the regeneration project to get an update on works and how they can [...]

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Councillors report for May/June 09
Council performance
The Audit Commission have found that “Hackney Council has continued to ‘improve strongly’ and remains a ‘three star’ council.
Hackney is delivering significant improvement in priority areas such as community safety, children and young people and adult social care. The pace of improvement is higher than the national average with three [...]

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How to play the regeneration game?
Rowan Moore
05.05.09

London has, right now, the chance of a remarkable transformation. Some of the city’s biggest, most troubled, most ugly, most intractable estates, where tens of thousands of people live, could at last be replaced.
Plans have been drawn up and decisions made. In some cases residents have been [...]

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April update – MORE AWARDS!

Most improved council
Last Wednesday Hackney was recognised as the most improved council at the Local Government Chronicle awards.
The work of our local strategic partnership Team Hackney was also highly commended.
Beacon Awards
A fortnight previously, we had been awarded beacon status in two categories. This is the first time Hackney [...]

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Our report to March

Councillors Report for March 09
Budget and council tax 2009/10
The council meeting to set the budget took place last night. As intended, we were able to freeze the Hackney element of the council tax again, for the fourth year in a row. Hackney is the only major council in the [...]

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HCA promises more help for regeneration schemes
5 March, 2009

The Homes and Communities Agency’s £93 million cash injection is just the start of state efforts to revive stalled regeneration schemes in the capital.
London mayor Boris Johnson joined the HCA earlier this week to announce the first wave of action to save thousands of construction jobs.
The [...]

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ESTATE PLAN IN JEOPARDY
hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
04 March 2009
Serious doubts have been raised about the long-term viability of a £1billion masterplan to transform a crumbling housing estate.
Hackney Council has gone cap in hand to the newly-created government body, the Homes & Community Agency (HCA), for a £16million rescue package to kickstart the flagship Woodberry Down regeneration [...]

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Your councillors’ report

Councillors Report for January 09
Council performance and budget 2009/10
We intend to freeze the Hackney element of the council tax again, for the fourth year in a row. As far as we know, we are the only council in the country to be able to do this. Residents are on average [...]

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My secret life: Freema Agyeman, actress, 29
Interview by Charlotte Philby

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Paul Rider
Agyeman says: “I’m no good at losing. I’ve been playing pool a lot with my boyfriend recently and I’m a bit of a sore loser. I need to work on that.”

The flat I grew up in … was on [...]

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£135 MILLION HOMES BOOST
hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
05 February 2009
The body managing the borough’s council homes is finally set to receive the £135 million for improvements its poor performance caused it to lose out on 16 months ago.
Hackney Homes, the arms-length organisation set up to manage rents, maintenance and repairs, was awarded a two-star performance rating this [...]

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