Hackney news

• Over 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers

  13-08-2018 14:28 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Growing support: gardeners added their names to a decorated wheelbarrow at last month’s manifesto launch. Photograph: Sandra Keating
  A community garden manifesto launched last month has attracted over 50 signatures from growers across the borough – and Hackney Council has offered to meet with the organisers to discuss a way forward.
  Gardening groups Cordwainers Grow, Dalston Curve and Daubeney Fields Forever unveiled their six-point plan to protect community spaces from development a
  
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• Residents seek clarity from council over tower block repairs

  13-08-2018 11:37 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  ‘Shrouded’: Morland Estate has been covered in scaffolding since November 2017.
  Residents of a council tower block whose brickwork crumbled into the street last year have asked for more transparency from the council over the block’s prior upkeep.
  Members of the Morland Blanchard Tenants and Residents Association (MBTRA) asked for clarity from Hackney Council capital works delivery officers in the wake of an 8 August meeting called to update residents on the progress of repairs.
  
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