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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 New Era estate is a housing estate in Hoxton, in the London Borough of Hackney, part of East London.Approximately 100 families lived on the estate in 2015. [1]The New Era Tenants' Association of estate residents had been involved in protests over the increase in rents proposed by its new landlord, the U.S.-based investment fund Westbrook Partners. [2]
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]
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.
In 1965, Hackney merged with Shoreditch and Stoke Newington to form the new London Borough of Hackney. Hackney's traditional boundaries, together with electoral wards as of 1916. Prior to 1994, a small part of Victoria Park was in Hackney, but a minor boundary alteration was made so that the whole park came under the control of Tower Hamlets. [8]
Hackney Central is a sub-district of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in London, England and is four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross.. The Hackney Central area is focused on Mare Street and the retail areas to the north of it including Narrow Way and surrounding local area around Hackney Downs railway station.
When merged to found the London Borough of Hackney in 1965, oaks from these arms were put in the new coat of arms of the London Borough of Hackney. The coat of arms of 1934 replaced an unofficial device adopted by the council on incorporation in 1900. At the top of the shield was a representation of the parish church.
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