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Rats, Relabelling And A Rooftop Pool: What We Know About The Shoreditch House Investigation
A Shoreditch local journalist sets out the facts on Hackney Council’s food safety inquiry at the members’ club, and why the story landed so hard…
Last Orders in Shoreditch: The Long Argument Between the Bars and the Bedrooms
A neighbourhood that sells itself on its nightlife also has thousands of residents who would like some sleep Last Orders in Shoreditch: The Long Argument…
Arnold Circus: The Bandstand Built on the Rubble of London’s Worst Slum
Five minutes from the cocktail bars stands the first council estate in the country, and it is still doing its job Arnold Circus: The Bandstand…
Whatever Happened to Silicon Roundabout? A Walk Around Old Street
The nickname began as a joke, became a government policy and has outlived the roundabout it was named after Whatever Happened to Silicon Roundabout? A…
Who Owns a Shoreditch Wall? The Law, the Paint and the People With Ladders
Street art made the neighbourhood famous. Working out who is allowed to do it is a great deal more complicated Who Owns a Shoreditch Wall?…
Ministers Approved a Data Centre and Five Office Blocks at Brick Lane Over the Council’s Objection: What Spitalfields Gets and What It Fears
A government decision after a three-week inquiry backs offices, a data centre and 44 homes, six of them for social rent, while campaigners count 30,000…
Shakespeare Worked in Shoreditch First, and the Evidence Is Under an Office Block
Before the Globe there was the Theatre and the Curtain, two playhouses built just outside the City where the rules could not reach Shakespeare Worked…
Five Derelict Buildings on Sclater Street Are Coming Back to Life, and So Is a Road That Never Existed
The first pieces of the Goodsyard to get detailed approval are small ones: a row of ruined weavers’ houses and a new route between Brick…
Hackney Has Voted to Open Council Land to Food Growers and Is Taking Applications for Up to Ten Sites: What the Right to Grow Pilot Offers
After a 4 March motion, groups of five or more residents can apply to grow on verges and vacant plots, though parks are excluded and…
836 People Signed a Petition Against Hoxton Traffic Filters While Hackney Council Says It Is Not Rushing: The Connecting Hoxton Row Explained
A bus gate on Hoxton Street, filters on Stanway and Fanshaw Streets and a school street at St Monica’s have produced a split consultation and…
