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The council meets at Hackney Town Hall on Mare Street, which was completed in 1937 for the old Hackney Borough Council. [27] Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, Hackney, London, E8 1DY: Council's main offices since 2010. The council has its main offices at the Hackney Service Centre at 1 Hillman Street, immediately west of the Town Hall.
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]
Hoxton West is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney. The ward was first used in the 2014 elections. It returns three councillors to Hackney London Borough Council. The ward was created from most of the previous ward of Hoxton, except for the section east of Pitfield Street.
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 by-election took place on 12 September 2024, following the resignation of Mete Coban, who became Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy. [1] The Green Party's gain in Stoke Newington increased their representation on the council to three seats, the highest number they have held since 1992, when they held two seats.
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.
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; Hackney Wick, a sub-district of Hackney; South Hackney, a sub-district of Hackney