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Gillett Square’s 20th anniversary improvements brings more trees, seating, play space, and expanded areas for events and markets.

The designs include 17 new or upgraded pedestrian crossings along New North Road and East Road. 

The four-year plan includes a new heat network serving over 1,400 homes, two local schools and Britannia Leisure Centre.

A resident in a new council home at Wimbourne Street says ‘it’s amazing you can move such a short distance and have a completely different feeling and space’.

Work has started on 172 new council homes in Hoxton, Clapton and Stoke Newington as Mayor Zoë Garbett calls for funding to build more.

Mayor Garbett responds to today's Autumn Statement

Hackney Council has launched a new interactive map to help people find toilets, drinking water, phone charging and routes home when they’re out at night.

Mayor Zoë Garbett and five council leaders recently met with the Chair for Equality and Human Rights Commission to raise urgent concerns. 

The Council has sped up waste removals, given out more fines and cut illegal dumping by businesses.

Proposals for new School Streets, a 24-hour bus gate, traffic filters, safer crossings, rain gardens and more have been approved.

A new programme of repairs action days is set to be rolled out across Hackney council estates after a pilot saw 20 homes visited and an average of three repairs completed at each in a single day.

We’re helping eligible households secure funding to make their homes more energy efficient.