<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Hackney - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest news about Hackney with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your region!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Hackney forces Sadiq Khan retreat on affordable housing cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zo&euml; Garbett claims victory after London mayor agrees to scrap his 20 per cent affordable housing floor and restore Hackney&rsquo;s threshold to 35 per cent &mdash; though not until 2028]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-forces-sadiq-khan-retreat-on-affordable-housing-cuts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-forces-sadiq-khan-retreat-on-affordable-housing-cuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A work of fiction’: Draft London Plan slashes housing ambition as critics round on Sadiq Khan]]></title><description><![CDATA[City Hall pitches for 558,000 new homes by 2037 &mdash; well short of the 850,000 set by ministers &mdash; as deputy mayor Jules Pipe insists lower figure is the only 'deliverable' number]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/a-work-of-fiction-draft-london-plan-slashes-housing-ambition-as-critics-round-on-sadiq-khan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/a-work-of-fiction-draft-london-plan-slashes-housing-ambition-as-critics-round-on-sadiq-khan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackney Greens distance themselves from Burnham effigy protest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed &mdash; but the party insists they witnessed no violence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-greens-distance-themselves-from-burnham-effigy-protest/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-greens-distance-themselves-from-burnham-effigy-protest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homerton community garden wins fifth Green Flag award]]></title><description><![CDATA[A community garden run by a Homerton mental-health charity has been awarded a Green Flag for the fifth year running, as the organisation behind the national scheme warns that access to safe, well-kept parks is increasingly a matter of postcode.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/homerton-community-garden-wins-fifth-green-flag-award/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/homerton-community-garden-wins-fifth-green-flag-award/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[STIK print raises over £4,000 for the Homerton]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hackney artist&rsquo;s signed Holding Hands set sold at Bonhams, with the full proceeds going to the hospital where, as he put it, much of Hackney was born]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/stik-print-raises-over-4000-for-the-homerton/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/stik-print-raises-over-4000-for-the-homerton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The graveyard at Hackney Wick: sunken boats left to rot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee at Hackney Wick, two sunken narrow boats lie within touching distance of one another]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/the-graveyard-at-hackney-wick-sunken-boats-left-to-rot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/the-graveyard-at-hackney-wick-sunken-boats-left-to-rot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Hackney councillor ‘debanked’ by HSBC after Ukraine trip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Boff, once a Queensbridge councillor and now chair of the London Assembly, says First Direct closed his account of 30 years over a &pound;36 card payment in Kyiv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/former-hackney-councillor-debanked-by-hsbc-after-ukraine-trip/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/former-hackney-councillor-debanked-by-hsbc-after-ukraine-trip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Council says no eviction warrant sought as it defends handling of SEND family’s case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackney Council has said it has not applied for a warrant to remove a family with an autistic child from a home they have occupied for nearly 20 years, disputing several accounts of a case the borough's Green Mayor backed before taking office.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-says-no-eviction-warrant-sought-as-it-defends-handling-of-send-familys-case/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-says-no-eviction-warrant-sought-as-it-defends-handling-of-send-familys-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayor Garbett urges minister to bin single-sex rules as campaigners round on her]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zo&euml; Garbett tells the government to reject new EHRC guidance requiring single-sex spaces to follow biological sex, warning it puts trans people at risk &mdash; but the group Hackney Sex Realists says she is sacrificing women "on the altar of an ideology"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/mayor-garbett-urges-minister-to-bin-single-sex-rules-as-campaigners-round-on-her/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/mayor-garbett-urges-minister-to-bin-single-sex-rules-as-campaigners-round-on-her/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Hackney mayor joins call to restore whip to Diane Abbott]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 30 party members write to Andy Burnham on the eve of his likely premiership, arguing that the year-long suspension may have cost Labour votes in May's elections]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/former-hackney-mayor-joins-call-to-restore-whip-to-diane-abbott/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/former-hackney-mayor-joins-call-to-restore-whip-to-diane-abbott/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadiq Khan misses affordable homes target — even after it was cut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only a tenth of affordable homes completed since 2015 were social rent, as the London mayor misses his downgraded delivery target by thousands of homes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/sadiq-khan-misses-affordable-homes-target-even-after-it-was-cut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/sadiq-khan-misses-affordable-homes-target-even-after-it-was-cut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mossbourne refuses to apologise to pupils as academy trust defends record before councillors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Academy trust leaders said they would not say sorry to children the safeguarding review found were harmed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/mossbourne-refuses-to-apologise-to-pupils-as-academy-trust-defends-record-before-councillors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/mossbourne-refuses-to-apologise-to-pupils-as-academy-trust-defends-record-before-councillors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Council spent £10,000 on parking charges in a year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackney employees clocked up more than &pound;10,000 in parking penalties and road charges over 12 months]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-spent-10000-on-parking-charges-in-a-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-spent-10000-on-parking-charges-in-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Council consults on Tyssen Street greening as campaigners cry foul over play area]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackney Council has opened a consultation on plans to redesign the courtyard behind Hoxton Trust Community Garden on Tyssen Street, as part of the wider Connecting Hoxton project.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-consults-on-tyssen-street-greening-as-campaigners-cry-foul-over-play-area/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/council-consults-on-tyssen-street-greening-as-campaigners-cry-foul-over-play-area/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family’s five-year battle over collapsing council flat: ‘It’s dangerous’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Doudou Panda says repeated repairs at his Haggerston home have failed to stop leaks that have caved in a bathroom wall and left his children too frightened to use the toilet]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/familys-five-year-battle-over-collapsing-council-flat-its-dangerous/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/familys-five-year-battle-over-collapsing-council-flat-its-dangerous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greens accused of U-turn as they approve Woodberry Down ‘double decant’ to avoid £13.5m overrun]]></title><description><![CDATA[Up to 32 council households face being moved twice under a schedule signed off at Mayor Zo&euml; Garbett's first cabinet &mdash; despite the Greens' past attacks on the estate's demolition-led regeneration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/greens-accused-of-u-turn-as-they-approve-woodberry-down-double-decant-to-avoid-135m-overrun/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/greens-accused-of-u-turn-as-they-approve-woodberry-down-double-decant-to-avoid-135m-overrun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: Hackney went nearly seven years without a housing repairs contract as homes decayed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Council missed an entire structural repairs cycle after its main contractor deal lapsed in 2019 &mdash; a gap insiders say left tenants in damp and mould]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/revealed-hackney-went-nearly-seven-years-without-a-housing-repairs-contract-as-homes-decayed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/revealed-hackney-went-nearly-seven-years-without-a-housing-repairs-contract-as-homes-decayed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Patrick Vernon to lead Rio talk as film spotlights black and working-class health researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new documentary charting the journeys of three professors and a PhD student into health research opens with a free screening at Dalston&rsquo;s Rio Cinema]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/sir-patrick-vernon-to-lead-rio-talk-as-film-spotlights-black-and-working-class-health-researchers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/sir-patrick-vernon-to-lead-rio-talk-as-film-spotlights-black-and-working-class-health-researchers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour accuses Mayor Garbett of claiming credit for gym plans it drew up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opposition says the conversion of 'empty' Christopher Addison House into a stopgap gym predates the Green administration's Who Owns Hackney project]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/labour-accuses-mayor-garbett-of-claiming-credit-for-gym-plans-it-drew-up/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/labour-accuses-mayor-garbett-of-claiming-credit-for-gym-plans-it-drew-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackney bus drivers among 1,900 balloted for strike as London Assembly backs Bill of Rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clapton and Stamford Hill depots are among 10 facing strike ballots over 'unbearable' heat, as City Hall unites behind a dozen new protections for drivers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-bus-drivers-among-1900-balloted-for-strike-as-london-assembly-backs-bill-of-rights/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/region/hackney/hackney-bus-drivers-among-1900-balloted-for-strike-as-london-assembly-backs-bill-of-rights/</guid></item></channel></rss>