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Hackney London Borough Council, also known as Hackney Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Hackney, in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2002. Since 2002 the council has been led by a directly elected mayor.
The local authority is Hackney Council, which meets at Hackney Town Hall and has its main offices in the adjoining Hackney Service Centre. Since 2002 the council has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Hackney. A speaker fulfils the civic and ceremonial duties previously undertaken by the (non-political) mayor prior to 2002. [40]
The borough council was initially based in a "French-Italian" style town hall in Hackney Grove, dating from 1866. The building was extended in 1898. [1] A new Art Deco town hall in Mare Street was begun in 1934, and opened in 1937. It is now the headquarters of the London Borough of Hackney. [1]
Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name.It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Woodley was elected in 2018 to Hackney London Borough Council from the Cazenove ward and was re-elected in 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She became the cabinet member for families, parks and leisure. [ 3 ]
However, many of the council officers and their departments, who had been located in disparate departments around the area, moved to the new Hackney Service Centre in Hillman Street, designed by Hopkins Architects, in 2010. [10] An extensive refurbishment of the town Hall to the designs of Hawkins\Brown was completed in 2017.
The mayor of Hackney is a directly elected mayor responsible for the executive function of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The post was created following a referendum in the London Borough of Hackney on 2 May 2002. The inaugural mayor Jules Pipe was succeeded by Philip Glanville following an election on 15 September 2016 ...
Hackney (electoral division), a division of the Greater London Council from 1965 to 1973 London Borough of Hackney , a local authority area created in 1965 Hackney Central , a sub-district of Hackney which forms the commercial and administrative centre