Month: August 2026
Hackney’s Fifteen Year Plan For Shoreditch Just Went Out For Consultation, And Most Residents I Spoke To Had No Idea
The Future Shoreditch Area Action Plan will shape this neighbourhood for a generation, quietly A Fifteen Year Blueprint Moving Through Consultation Largely Unnoticed By Cyndi…
Shoreditch Works Hit A Genuine Snag When The Developer Claimed It Could Not Afford Its Own Affordable Housing Quota
Hackney’s independent consultants disagreed, and the decision got pushed back while everyone argued about the maths A Scheme’s Progress Stalls Over A Disputed Spreadsheet By…
Shoreditch Design Week Returns This September With Bacteria Grown Materials And A Genuinely Local Lineup
Over a hundred showrooms and a new cohort called Voices of Shoreditch anchor this year’s programme A Design Festival Leaning Harder Into Its Own Neighbourhood…
The Goodsyard’s Nine Hundred Million Pound Regeneration Sits Right Next To Boxpark, And It Dwarfs Everything Else In The Area
Seven Wembley pitches of derelict railway land are finally getting their long-promised transformation A Derelict Site Finally Living Up To Its Scale By Cyndi Himmelstiere….
Independent Shoreditch Has Quietly Become The Neighbourhood’s Most Useful Business Support Network
A local enterprise built specifically to strengthen small traders deserves more recognition than it gets A Support Network Working Quietly In The Background By Cyndi…
The Common Press Made The Cut For Best Bookshop In Britain, And Shoreditch Should Be Shouting About It
Our own queer intersectional bookseller is going toe to toe with the whole country’s finest indies A Shortlist Shoreditch Genuinely Earned By Cyndi Himmelstiere. The…
Shoreditch Works Just Cleared Committee, And Thirty Five Percent Affordable Housing Deserves A Proper Read
Hackney Council’s decision on the 1.4 hectare scheme will shape this corner of the neighbourhood for decades A Development Big Enough To Actually Matter By…
Boxpark’s Lease Extension Bought Forty Seven Small Businesses Real Time, Not A Permanent Guarantee
The venue’s near-closure last year should have taught the neighbourhood something about complacency A Reprieve Worth Remembering Was Not Guaranteed By Cyndi Himmelstiere. It is…
Goodhood Left Shoreditch For Spitalfields Two Years Ago, And The Neighbourhood Still Has Not Fully Reckoned With Why
One of our most iconic independent retailers chose to move a short walk away, and the reasons matter A Short Walk That Meant Something Longer…
American Buyers Are Reshaping Shoreditch’s Property Market, And Long-Term Residents Are Noticing The Shift
Tech and private equity money is moving into a neighbourhood that used to define itself against exactly that A New Kind Of Buyer Arriving In…
