The pub with a playground is one of parenthood’s small mercies: somewhere adults can finish a conversation — and a pint — while the children entertain themselves. Now a Dalston father of two has built ...

The Clapton Tram depot site on Upper Clapton Road in August 2025. Image: Google. A historic tram site in Hackney could be given a new lease of life under fresh planning proposals ...

Her thesis, ‘Structure Liberates?’, names the school outright, and devotes a section to a phrase that would later echo in a parent’s submission to Wood’s review: the verbal cane.

After avoiding closure in 2025, London’s original Boxpark site at Bishopsgate Goodsyard near Shoreditch High Street Station can continue to play live music from its terrace after several residents ...

Hackney Council has voted to begin the process of ending its twinning relationship with the Israeli city of Haifa, a civic link signed in September 1968 by the then Mayor of Hackney, Stanley Clinton ...

In that first letter, sent the day after Tuesday’s full council vote, the Mayor told her Haifa counterpart, Yona Yahav, that the relationship “no longer reflects the strategic priorities of the ...

The reservoir, off Green Lanes at Woodberry Down, was awarded £700,000 in 2022 for a series of upgrades and now offers open water swimming, sailing and kayaking — the kind of transformation the Mayor ...

Residents of a Lower Clapton council block have been left “angry, frustrated and exhausted” after their lift broke down more than seven weeks ago — with no repair date yet in sight.