Hackney Citizen - March 2023, first edition

Price set: Plaque for pre-eminent mathematician

Preacher, philosopher and “maths genius” Dr Richard Price has been honoured with a blue plaque in Newington Green.

Price is considered one of the great Welsh thinkers, and the plaque is set on the wall of 54 Newington Green, where he lived in from 1758 until 1787. It is here that he wrote letters to friends such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Price preached at the Unitarian Church at Newington Green Meeting House, where “mother of feminism” Mary Wollstonecraft was among his congregation.

Journalist Huw Edwards said: “There is no doubt that Richard Price deserves to be a household name. He was a mathematical genius and forwardthinking philosopher and theologian whose influence is still felt today. I hope English Heritage’s new plaque will go some way towards getting him the recognition he deserves.”

Award for Ward: Hackney old boy wins acting prize

New owner of borough’s second-oldest house ‘left in limbo’ by council red tape

Elizabeth Prochaska and her family want to turn part of the renovated 324-year-old property into a community arts space

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

The team behind a multimillion-pound rescue of Hackney’s second-oldest house say they have been left in ‘nasty limbo’ by council red tape.

The 324-year-old Elizabeth Fry Refuge on Mare Street fell into disrepair in 2013.

Squatters moved in after the New Lansdowne working men’s club vacated the place, and a second set of squatters lived in the Grade II*-listed townhouse in 2017.

Since then, developer Carlton James has spent more than £3m renovating the house and building 21 flats behind it, as part of a Section 106 planning agreement with Hackney Council.

Elizabeth Prochaska and her husband bought the three-storey house last year

but say they are at an impasse with the Town Hall. They plan to live in it and use part of it for community arts, and are currently donating the space to local artists for studios.

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Micheal Ward, Bafta-winning star of Top Boy and Blue Story, picked up a Breakout Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) in February.

Ward spent much of his childhood in Hackney after moving from Jamaica at the age of four. He shot to fame after being cast in long-running TV hit Top Boy, which is set on a fictionalised Hackney estate.

NBFF celebrates the best in British and Irish film and television talent, and 25-year-old Ward was recognised for his role as a cinema employee in Empire of Light, in which he stars alongside Oscar winner Olivia Colman.

Francisco de la Mora’s tribute to campaigners working towards creating East London’s first wild swimming pond (sees story, p3), with the River Lea, sadly polluted and unhygienic for water-lovers, in the foreground

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They have given the Vagina Museum a temporary home to store their exhibits after it had to move from its base in Bethnal Green.

Recently, 100 supporters of the Hackney Society visited for a tour, with 50 more on the waiting list.

Prochaska said: “We want to make it really cool in Hackney but we’re in a kind of nasty limbo.”

Delays mean they are having to pay commercial rates for electricity and cannot complete other administration.

Hackney Council is yet to sign off a change of use application, which the family was told should be completed by last October. They applied for planning permission in August.

for repairs as the work was so specialist.

“I remember when we got it out of its box when it came back, it’s a very special piece,” said James.

The work was supervised by Hackney Council’s heritage officer who paid frequent visits. Treasures include the largest piece of 17th-century wood graining in England and a strip of wallpaper from the same period.

Hackney Council said in a statement: “As part of the original planning application, which included a change of use of the 195 Mare Street to business use and a new building providing 21 homes, the developer had to complete and protect historic parts of the building before selling all of the new flats.

“This was to ensure that one of the oldest buildings in Hackney could be protected for future generations.

Prochaska said the family are stuck until the council signs off the change of use.

James said he has people desperate to move in and the delays are costing him thousands of pounds a month in interest charges.

He said the house was in a parlous state before his team stepped in.

He said: “The roof had collapsed. We had to repair the first floor and go up in single file because of the state of the stairs.

“The first stage of work was described as emergency repair work.”

It is a far cry from the heyday of the William and Mary house, which was built for a Hackney merchant. It was later used between 1860 and 1913 as the Elizabeth Fry Refuge for women after they left prison.

Last year, it featured on popular TV show The Repair Shop, hosted by Hackney-born Jay Blades.

James added: “We had to employ our own specialists on the house.”

A team of 20 people worked on the house. The Georgian fanlight window over the front door – like the one at 10 Downing Street – had to be sent to York

"The council has previously allowed a variation to the original permission to enable the sale of more of the units to assist the developer in carrying out work to the listed building.”

The council said the historic house was sold before all the restoration work was finished and the new application is being determined, with a decision expected "shortly”.

It said it “needs to be confident that either the work required to the listed building will be carried out, or that an alternative is suitably secured, before any further variations to the original permission can be considered”.

The spokesperson added: “We wrote to the applicants of the original planning application on 19 January 2023 to respond to concerns raised, and have been in touch with the applicant several times in September, October, November and December 2022.

“The applicants are aware that the matter is now with the respective legal teams in order to progress the legal agreement, which would form part of the planning permission. Planning permission can then be granted once the legal agreement has been resolved.”

Since the Citizen raised the issue with the council, Prochaska has been told legal documents are on their way.

Homerton Hospital’s new essential services pathology lab is officially open after a ribboncutting ceremony in February attended by chief executive Louise Ashley.

It follows a contentious merger between Homerton, Barts, and Lewisham and Greenwich trusts, which now form the NHS East & South East London Pathology Partnership.

This regional model prompted concern locally, with Healthwatch Hackney, Labour politicians and NHS campaigners voicing misgivings.

The Homerton’s previous chief executive, Tracey Fletcher, said patients should “not see any difference” in care.

The hospital’s chair Sir John Gieve, who helped cut the ribbon at the new lab, said: “We have been through much effort to get to this point but we now have superb new pathology facilities just across the corridor to the emergency department and supporting other key clinical areas in our hospital.”

The facility will focus on urgent tests requiring a quick turnaround in emergency and

specialist areas such as ICU, children’s intensive care and maternity.

Andrew Knott, managing director of the new pathology partnership, said: “Pathology plays an essential role in approximately 70 per cent of patient pathways. The creation of a shared network for pathology across east and south-east London reflects the wider NHS national pathology strategy to meet the changing needs of patients and to be able to take full advantage of developments in new testing technology.”

Demand for care following hospital stay means ‘significant number’ are being put up outside the borough

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

A “significant number” of patients are being discharged from hospital to residential care outside Hackney because of the demand for support.

Hackney was allocated £1.9m of government money, with £1.1m of that for adult social care, to speed up discharging patients after hospital treatment for physical or mental health conditions over the winter.

The council’s head of adult health and integration Helen Woodland said there are currently around 400 people in residential care out of borough.

She told the Health in Hackney scrutiny commission in February: “If they have nursing need, there really is no way around that.”

She estimated that a half to two thirds of them could be

accommodated in Hackney if there were alternatives.

The council is looking at ways to cope with the demand.

Woodland stressed that the council aims to support people back into the community “wherever possible in their own homes”. She said often family members are the people pressing for their loved ones to go into nursing care.

The scrutiny commission heard an update about some of the schemes Hackney is spending the government’s winter funding on. Overall, it is estimated to be helping 499 patients.

The money was part of a national £500m package unveiled in November to help with winter pressures and has to be spent by the end of March. A further £200m was announced in January to buy extra social care beds.

Hackney is using the money for a range of support, including a pilot reablement project to help people get back on their feet at home, and increasing the hours for the Move On team, which should free up 102 bed days in hospital.

Some £346,000 has been allocated for care packages for people in the first month after they leave hospital and another £253,000 for support after the first four weeks.

The council also uses 15 flats to care for people coming out of hospital. This includes people who have problems with infestations or hoarding and £96,000 has been earmarked for hygiene teams. It could save 420 bed days in hospital.

Woodland said it might not be suitable for people who are suffering from neglect or hoarding to be discharged straight home from hospital.

‘Superb’ new pathology lab opens at the Homerton after controversial NHS merger

Louise Ashley and Sir John Gieve cut the ribbon, with Andrew Knott looking on (right). Photograph: Homerton Hospital

'The roof had collapsed'

Elizabeth Prochaska with developer Carlton James. Photograph: Julia Gregory

East London’s first wild swimming pond inches closer as campaigners glide past £500k target

East London Waterworks Park group now sets its sights on purchasing the land for the ‘brownfield rainforest’

Major plans to build East London’s first community-owned natural swimming pond are bubbling away nicely after organisers surpassed their £500k crowdfunding target.

It’s taken just seven months for the East London Waterworks Park (ELWP) campaign to hit the half a million mark, thanks to donations from more than 4,500 people.

The idea for the project came from local residents, who set about raising enough money to acquire an ex-Thames Water depot on Lea Bridge Road and turn it into what they call a “brownfield rainforest”.

The ambitious plans include wild swimming in the Victorian filter beds, conservation volunteering, a forest school, and a community hub.

With the success of the crowdfunder, that vision is now one step closer to reality, with organisers now setting their sights on purchasing the 5.68-hectare site from the government.

In a thank you message to supporters, ELWP chair and volunteer Abigail Woodman said: “We’ve demonstrated that the community wants East London Waterworks Park to happen.

“We’ve demonstrated we can raise money to transform an industrial site into a brand new park for East London to provide educational, economic, health and environmental benefits for our community.

“And we’ve demonstrated that, together, we can take real steps to tackle the climate crisis, biodiversity collapse, social inequality and social isolation.

“Thank you to everyone involved.”

The project has received backing from local authorities.

Fill up a donation box for Foodbank AdLent calendar

Hackney Foodbank has launched an AdLent Calendar Challenge – which asks people to fill up a box with one item a day for 40 days before dropping it off at the warehouse.

The Foodbank, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, is also running an emergency appeal to raise £100,000 to help them meet unprecedented demand

Pat Fitzsimons, CEO of Hackney Foodbank, said: "Many of the people we support are malnourished – we’re gearing up to the Easter holidays when our lunch club will be a lifeline to hundreds of local children who would otherwise go hungry.

blue infrastructure. We know we need community partnership across London to become green and resilient, and this project sets a truly inspiring precedent.”

Cllr Caroline Woodley, Hackney’s cabinet member for families, parks and leisure, said: “We warmly welcome this vision of sustainability, decarbonisation and nature recovery.

“Bringing back open water and returning this site to nature would offer Hackney and Waltham Forest residents greater access to green and

Shaun Dawson, chief executive of Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, added: “The innovative scheme chimes with our framework strategy for the overall area and would bring a currently closed site into recreational use with a range of benefits for visitors and the area’s biodiversity.”

The crowdfunder remains open, with campaigners working towards a stretch goal of raising £600k, at which point they will turn their attention towards buying the land.

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"Lent is traditionally the time to go without and to consider the needs of others – this year we are pleading with those who can to mark this special moment in the Christian calendar by donating to people experiencing food poverty.”

Lent began on Ash Wednesday and ends on Thursday 6 April.

Among the items requested for an AdLent box are baby food, curry sauce, jam, biscuits, cereal, sugar, deodorant, nappies, shower gel and soap. Donations should be dropped to Hackney Foodbank at The Florence Bennett Centre on Cherbury Street.

For opening hours, donation information, and a downloadable AdLent calendar, visit hackney.foodbank.org.uk

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An illustration of the vision for the site. Image: courtesy ELWP

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Motor vehicles to face controls on 75 per cent of local streets

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Motor vehicles will face restrictions on three quarters of Hackney’s roads under plans to extend low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and the school streets scheme.

Cabinet member for the environment and transport Mete Coban unveiled plans to extend the LTNs, which currently cover half of Hackney, in a move to further lower carbon emissions across the borough.

He said: “It’s a really ambitious plan to reduce pollution in Hackney. We have had quite a journey and seen traffic on main roads has gone down.”

Transport contributes 21 per cent of the carbon in the borough and Hackney Council said: “We would like to see all motorised traffic transition to low emission vehicles or electric vehicles. Electrifying transport will have one of the largest impacts on carbon emissions generated within the borough.”

The council said it has seen a 38 per cent drop in traffic in LTN areas. Dalston, Shacklewell, Chatsworth Road, Hoxton East and Stamford Hill wards are on the cards this year after the scheme won the green light from Hackney's cabinet in January. More will follow on Craven Walk, Southwold Road and Cazenove Road in 2024.

‘I'm sick to my stomach’: Leading council figures condemn ‘hateful’ letter sent to Dalston mosque

Police investigating after the Turkish Cypriot place of worship was targeted following the deadly earthquakes

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Politicians have condemned a “hateful” letter sent to a Hackney mosque following earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that have killed thousands.

The typed letter was delivered to the Turkish Cypriot mosque in Dalston to a community already reeling from the horrific death toll.

At least 45,000 people are believed to have died, with thousands more injured and made homeless by the disaster.

Hackney has one of the UK’s largest Turkish communities in the UK and has also welcomed Syrian refugees. Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville and

Cllr Susan Fajana-Thomas, the cabinet member for community safety, said: “We are sickened by reports of the letter.” They added: “This doesn’t reflect the community spirit that exists or the sense of shock and heartbreak at the tragic scenes we have seen in Turkey and Syria following the earthquake.”

Families in Hackney have been bereaved by the disaster.

The Mayor and Cllr Fajana-Thomas said: “We must not let the kind of hatred contained in the letters cloud the support the people of this area need from us and the rest of the world at this moment.”

Cllr Mete Coban, cabinet member for environment and transport, said he was

“sick to my stomach to hear about this racist and Islamophobic letter”.

He added: “Hackney has no place for hate and we won’t stand for it.”

He recently joined the mayor and Haringey leader Peray Ahmet for an evening of prayer to remember those who have died.

Police are investigating the letter.

Meanwhile, support for the communities affected by the earthquakes continues.

Hackney Council is working with community groups and schools to give affected children mental health and trauma support.

The Mildmay Club in Newington Green was just one venue that held a

fundraiser last weekend.

A pop-up stall organised by Turkish families on the De Beauvoir estate raised £1,000.

The De Beauvoir Association has arranged a concert at St Peter De Beauvoir church on Saturday 4 March.

Songs of Support has been organised alongside other community groups and the church itself.

Tickets cost £15 and proceeds will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Find out more, including how to book, at bit.ly/3IzW3P3

Transport boss Cllr Mete Coban (right) and Mayor Philip Glanville were among those to pour scorn on the letter.

Photograph: Hackney Council

'NHS land for NHS use': Campaign group issues rallying cry over plans to sell off St Leonard's

Council should lobby government for more funding for building's upkeep, says Hackney Keep Our NHS Public

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Campaigners took their concerns over the future of hospital buildings in Hackney to the Town Hall - 40 years after a previous battle over the site.

Hackney Keep Our NHS Public campaigners are worried that part of St Leonard’s Hospital in Hoxton could be sold off for housing or retail. They want the council to instead lobby the government for more funding. Several of the buildings have fallen into despair and some areas are locked up.

Campaigners braved heavy rain and spoke to councillors before a Hackney full council meeting. Dr Nick Mann said: “It’s really important that we preserve and maintain every piece of NHS land for the NHS.”

The GP said it was crucial to keep

services local, so patients do not face long or difficult journeys.

St Leonard’s offers rehabilitation, psychological services, physiotherapy, dietary advice, sexual health services and the wheelchair service. The Lawson GP practice is also operating on the site.

St Leonard’s ceased to be a general hospital in 1984.

Campaigner Peter Smorthit, who got help to recover from a stroke there and also used the wheelchair unit, said: “Where would I go?”

Hackney’s cabinet member for health Cllr Chris Kennedy said the council has been talking to Homerton Healthcare about partnership options: “Our intention in that work is to be sure that we do not inadvertently miss an opportunity, that might work with the input of both parties to make more of the site, should it arise.”

Cllr Kennedy told campaigners he agreed with them, but said he thought it would have to do “a bit of its own funding”.

Forty years ago, protestors gathered outside Hackney Town Hall where the health authority was discussing plans to close the hospital and transfer A&E to the new £20m Homerton Hospital site. NUPE general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe and MP Tony Benn addressed thousands of protestors. The following year, campaigners occupied St Leonard’s Hospital. Homerton Healthcare is considering asking for the transfer of the complex from NHS Property, but is looking to see if the numbers add up.

The hospital trust fears that “the costs of running the site will outstrip any income received from us running our services, or rent from other tenants, and

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Teachers' strike forces closure of 47 local schools

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Thousands of Hackney schoolchildren had a day off in early February as strike action by teachers forced the closure of 47 schools.

The National Education Union (NEU) staged the strike over calls for a pay rise. Union leaders say the average five per cent pay offer is seven per cent behind inflation and is “unsustainable” for teachers struggling with the cost of living.

make it unaffordable for us as a single owner operating the premises”.

An NHS Property spokesman said:

“NHS Property Services is committed to working with the North East London Integrated Care Board (which plans how services are delivered), Homerton NHS Trust and Hackney Council, to ensure that St Leonard’s Hospital continues to provide vital healthcare services in the local area. We have been working closely with our NHS partners in North East London over the last two to three years and have jointly undertaken an in-depth service review to help inform the healthcare requirements for the local community.

"Based on this, we are planning and have committed a significant amount of capital into the ongoing maintenance of St Leonard’s to help improve the environment for staff and patients.”

A few Hackney schools remained partially open for specific age groups, vulnerable pupils and children whose parents are critical workers.

Haggerston School stayed open for Year 13 pupils in the second year of sixth form, and until lunchtime for children in Year 11 doing GCSEs this summer. Jamie Duff from Hackney NEU said: “Teachers have had enough of low pay and a lack of funding.”

He added: “We do not want to strike but feel that the government is refusing to listen. This is the only way we can get our voices heard. We have suffered a real-terms pay cut of an estimated 23 per cent since 2010. Inflation is running at well over 10 per cent. We are demanding a fully funded and reasonable pay rise. Pay us a fair wage and stop undermining the profession."

He said schools are struggling to recruit and need more government investment.

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Campaigners protest outside Hackney Town Hall. Photograph: Julia Gregory

Residents urged to get ready for voter ID change

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Residents are being urged not to lose their right to vote when new rules requiring photo ID at the ballot box are introduced.

From May, voters will have to show documents such as a passport, driving licence, 60+ Oyster photocard or Freedom card.

Hackney Council campaigned against the government move.

Town Hall bosses told a parliamentary committee: “We expect the proposed voter ID regulations to have a particularly negative impact on turnout in Hackney, broadening inequality in voter turnout. This is due to the lower levels of passport and driving licence holders in the borough, the two most common forms of photo ID.”

The council said it is costly to obtain some of these documents and could lead to the poorest residents being disenfranchised. It is thought that 47 per cent of households in Hackney do not have a driving licence and 28 per cent of voters do not have a UK passport, with seven per cent not holding any passport. People who do not have suitable documents can apply for a free voter authority certificate and must also be registered to vote. They will need to provide proof of identity and can apply online or send a from to the council’s electoral registration office.

‘Fighting for survival’: Building collapse leads to emergency appeal for Stoke Newington firms

A number of traders on the High Street could not access their businesses while the road was closed for repairs

An emergency appeal has been set up for Stoke Newington traders dealt a “bitter blow” after a partial building collapse left them with no access to their businesses.

Rubble rained down on the High Street from a parapet on the four-storey building at the end of January.

The road was closed until the middle of February as workers attempted to make it safe.

Heidi Early, chair of Stoke Newington Business Association (SNBA), said in early February: “Around 20 businesses are impacted by this. In one dramatic moment, everything changed.

“They can’t access their shops at all.

They can’t get to their stock so trading online or anywhere else is tricky. “Small businesses don’t have big financial buffers to see them through moments like this – there is an immediate cash-flow issue and some are now fighting for survival.”

Those affected include a charity shop, a bakery, a dentist, a butcher, an optician, a hair salon, and many more.

Early added: “Our heart goes out to the businesses forced to close and the residents evacuated from their homes.

“Just as traders were getting back on their feet post-pandemic, another period of enforced closure is a bitter blow and leaves some on a knife-edge.

“Independent businesses are a massive part of what makes Stoke Newington so special and we’re urging the public to step up and give what they can to help.”

May Linn Bang of Knit with Attitude, one of the shops forced to close until further notice, said: “The main thing is of course that no one is injured, but for us the consequences of being closed, even for a few days, are quite dramatic. “As with many small businesses, the difference between making it and breaking is balancing on what sometimes feels like a very thin line. “I cannot deny that I am worried about our cash flow.”

Donations to the appeal, which at time of writing had raised close to £4k of its £10k target, will be distributed by SNBA to the businesses most impacted by the incident.

The High Street was closed following the incident. Photograph: Local Buyers Club

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Sector Insight Event at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday 28 February from 11am to 2pm

Capital City College Group (CCCG) has teamed up with LIFT and Arsenal in the Community to give people the chance to find out how they can boost their career prospects this month.

Jobseekers can learn more about gaining skills at CCCG’s Mayor of London Academy Hubs at a Sector Insight Event at Emirates Stadium on 28 February from 11am to 2pm. CCCG comprises City and Islington College, Westminster Kingsway College and the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, and apprenticeship and training provider Capital City College Training.

Last year CCCG successfully bid to run four Academy Hubs specialising in the Creative, Digital, Hospitality and Green industries, to support the capital’s economic recovery from COVID.

The event will give people the chance to gain an insight into careers in these sectors and training opportunities available through the Academy Hubs and CCCG’s industry partners.

Attendees will be able to apply for live vacancies on the day, visit employer stands, take part in workshops and get help and advice to improve their employability skills.

They will also have the chance to sign up to follow-up sessions to get more information on specific jobs and courses along with further advice from employers at Arsenal Community Hub in March.

The Academy Hubs aim to support adults hardest hit by the pandemic including those from diverse ethnic backgrounds, those with SEND, carers and other underrepresented groups. Book your place for the Sector Insight Event using the Eventbrite link at capitalccg.ac.uk/news/sectorinsight

◆ Whatever one thinks of Twitter and its new overseer, there's no denying that it's a major platform for political discourse. Sad then that Hackney's Conservatives have only put out 36 of their own tweets since 2016, with a miserly 166 followers. It doesn't quite chime with the account's tagline: "Ensuring the Labour monopoly on Hackney Council is held to account."

The local Lib Dems don't fare much better. They seem to have taken a vow of social media silence since the Queen's death - with not a peep since posting a monochrome photograph of the late monarch last September.

◆ Speaking of a lack of activity, residents on a Stoke Newington street may be wondering why they never hear back from their local councillors.

A housing notice put up recently on Smalley Close lists contact details for the block's three ward representatives. Slight catch: two of them are no longer in post. One of them quit as far back as 2014! No wonder that leak's not getting fixed.

Hackney councillors pressed to complete mandatory training

JULIA GREGORY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER

Politicians are getting reminders from the Town Hall about mandatory training – with only four recorded as having completed a course on finance and just eight on child safeguarding.

All councillors have already undertaken in-person schooling about their code of conduct to help them understand their responsibilities.

In the year to March 2022, there were 14 complaints alleging breaches of the code of conduct. One of these was later withdrawn and another was not investigated because there was not enough information. The remaining 12 complaints did not meet the threshold for investigation, but two councillors were given “words of advice” by monitoring officers.

The council asked councillors to complete a form when they have done some of their other training. According to a council report, 31 per cent have filled in the form.

It is thought that some councillors have done the course but simply not completed the paperwork. They have been reminded twice by their whips and the council sent them a reminder in September, two months after staff

initially asked them to complete the paperwork.

Councillors have to complete different training depending on the committee work they do, with special training for those on planning and licensing. Those departments keep their own records of attendance.

The standards committee heard concerns that it is tricky to fit in some professional development because of the constraints of the council’s timetable. Much of the training is online and staff are looking at ways to increase this, the standards committee was told.

According to Town Hall figures, just four councillors said they have done their virtual tuition in local government finance and budget setting; eight said they have completed safeguarding children and corporate parenting; and nine reported having done their training about safeguarding adults.

The most common complaint about councillors related to posts on social media, according to the most recent annual report, with the second about “not responding to resident enquiries”. Delays in scheduling training were “due to the extremely limited number of dates which are available within the council’s annual calendar”, according to the Town Hall report.

Food charity raises £5k with ‘delicious’ plant-based burger

Popular local charity Made In Hackney has raised a tasty £5,000 for its community food projects – with its new plantbased burger selling in the thousands.

The charity, which runs a community cookery school and an emergency food support service, teamed up with Fuller’s brewery to sell the carbon-cutting burger in pubs and hotels across the country.

With 50p of every sale donated back to Made In Hackney, the partnership has filled up the charity’s coffers along with customers’ bellies.

Expert chefs at the cookery school developed the burger as a nutritious alternative to imitation meat.

The patty is made up of mushrooms, beetroot, quinoa and more, and is topped with smoked vegan cheese, tahini-dressed kale, balsamic tomatoes and a secret sauce.

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Made In Hackney founder Sarah Bentley said: “Developing a plant-based burger for Fuller’s has been an incredible opportunity for our cookery school and charity. Not only does it mean customers have a delicious wholefood, plant-based burger option – but the funds raised help us to provide emergency food support and life changing plant-centered food education classes.

“No-one should go hungry or not know how to prepare a nourishing meal. Our work tackles this injustice.

“Thank you Fuller’s for supporting us to do this vital work.”

The burger has been on sale since August last year and will continue to be available in a number of venues managed by Fuller’s.

Find out more about the charity’s work at madeinhackney.org

Fuller’s has sold thousands of the burgers. Photograph: Rebecca Zephyr Thomas

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Hackney has made great strides in reducing toxic air and noise pollution by opening up more road space to pedestrians and supporting electric vehicle use. The council’s bold moves have set the scene for a radical transformation of the way we live. In an inner London borough, most people should have everything they need within walking distance, and businesses should be invigorated by local custom.

The concept of the '15-minute city' was mooted in France some years ago by Paris mayor Anne Hildago, and Hackney is the perfect place for it. The challenge is that a 15-minute city

raises a host of tricky issues that require careful planning and inclusive thinking. A creative approach would be for the Town Hall to create a ‘citizens assembly’ of randomly-selected local residents to advise the council on how to organise public space. Approaches such as this have been used successfully in France, Ireland and elsewhere.

There is no easy way to move from a community smothered in smog and noise to one where people can walk and breathe, but giving people a proper say in the matter would go a long way towards building public confidence in both the solution and the way it is crafted.

No room for hate

Re: 'I'm sick to my stomach': Leading council figures condemn 'hateful' letter sent to Dalston mosque (this issue, p4)

Charity challenge

The judge forced the campaigners to pay costs to reimburse Hackney Council for legal expenses that it incurred defending a case that turned out to be baseless. Chances are that the £10k didn't cover all of Hackney's legal bills, meaning there is now less chance the council can support the three charities than before [...] Perhaps the campaigners should ask their own supporters to have another whip round to help out these three very worthy charities instead of making such nonsense challenges?

MartynWilliams2

You [HHRC Ltd] could have just donated the money yourselves, and the lawyers wouldn't have got a cut.

Hackney Stand Up to Racism send a message of solidarity and unity to the Aziziye Mosque and Masjid Ramadan Mosque after they were sent a racist letter by a vile creature rejoicing in the deaths of Muslims from the recent earthquake which has caused so much devastation in Turkey and Syria and which has killed 45,000 men, women and children. We say there is no room for such hate in Hackney. We say “No” to Islamophobia. Hackney Stand Up to Racism is proud to stand in solidarity with our Muslim sisters and brothers.

Sasha Simic

Such hate must be educated out and eradicated.

Philip Morris

Mary’s Meals provides a daily meal in a place of education to hungry children in some of the world’s poorest countries [...] With Spring approaching, and longer, warmer days, it’s a great time to think about taking on an active challenge. So, I’m asking your readers to consider a fundraising challenge for Mary’s Meals. From cycling, to dancing, to swimming and everything in between, there is something you can do to support Mary’s Meals – including the charity’s new virtual challenge, From Dalmally to Malawi. Thanks to the charity’s low-cost approach, a donation of any size will help feed desperately hungry children. Mary’s Meals spends at least 93 per cent of donations on their charitable activities. For more information, or to set up your very own fundraiser, please visit marysmeals.org.uk.

Ellison Hudson, Mary’s Meals supporter

An LTN. Photograph: Hackney Council

Ellison Hudson cycled 84 miles for Mary's Meals

Earthquake damage. Photo: Hilmi Hacaloğlu

Guido Acasa

Illustration from an exhibition exploring what Hackney was like in 300,000 BC (see story, p14).

Image: courtesy Hackney Museum

Get a glimpse of what the borough was like 300,000 years ago in ‘fascinating’ Hackney Museum display

Hackney Museum is taking visitors back in time for a new exhibition offering a “fascinating glimpse” of the borough in 300,000 BC – when hippos rather than hipsters roamed the landscape.

Hackney 300,000 BC: Meet the Neanderthal neighbours and curious creatures of the borough’s Old Stone Age explores life when Mare Street was a mere patch of savannah inhabited by lions, mammoths and archaic humans.

The stone artifacts on display are so old that they predate homo sapiens by 100,000 years.

More than 3,000 ancient objects have been uncovered and preserved in Hackney since the late 19th century.

Town Hall culture chief Cllr Chris Kennedy said: “This exhibition provides a truly fascinating glimpse into Hackney 300,000 years ago.

“Hackney is one of the richest sites for finding objects from that time period. It’s an incredible opportunity to see artefacts from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

“I hope residents join us in taking a trip back through time.”

The exhibition, which runs until late July, was informed by feedback from

local teachers – with prehistory now a part of the national curriculum for ages seven to nine.

More than 200 schoolchildren were given a special preview recently. They watched tool-making demonstrations, created artworks, and met with archaeologists.

Hackney’s deputy mayor and education chief Cllr Anntoinette Bramble said: “Our teachers forum last year provided some valuable insights into what children wanted to see and how best to present information to help them learn.

“A big thank you to our museum team who kept local schools involved throughout the project and worked together to ensure the exhibition was as informative and entertaining as it could be.

“This reminds me of my time as a teacher looking for opportunities to bring learning alive!”

Among the exhibits are bone fragments of a straight-tusked elephant – thought to be the largest land mammal ever to exist – that were discovered during sewer works in 1960 on Evering Road. There are also handaxes found in the borough that offer evidence

that Neanderthals were much more intelligent than given credit for.

Marks on the surface of the axes show they had multiple uses, including butchering and skinning animals, cutting wood and even digging.

Worthington George Smith (18351917), an eccentric architect and artist from Shoreditch, also features in the display.

Smith’s pioneering archaeological methods and dedicated research are still central to our understanding the British Old Stone Age.

In 1880, he explored the construction sites north of Stoke Newington Common, and over the next four years found more than 200 handaxes and ‘hundreds of thousands’ of flakes –another kind of stone tool used by Neanderthals. He found so many that he offered them to other collectors for the price of the postage.

Hackney 300,000 BC: Meet the Neanderthal neighbours and curious creatures of the borough’s Old Stone Age runs until 22 July at Hackney Museum.

Top to bottom: A handaxe made by Neanderthals. Photograph: courtesy Hackney Museum; Worthington George Smith. Photograph: courtesy Professor Mark White; schoolchildren visit the exhibition. Photographs: Hackney Museum

‘The borough is one of the richest sites for finding objects from that time period,’ says Town Hall culture boss

‘It’s all down to the friendliness of the authors’: One-man Hackney publishing house prepares to celebrate five-year anniversary

A former executive who challenged himself to set up his own publishing house is just where we wants to be after nearly half a decade.

Richard Charkin started Mensch Publishing after many years at industry titans such as Macmillan and Oxford University Press.

But he decided to branch out on his own with the aim of being as fair as possible to authors.

“I’ve been in the industry to for a long time,” he told the Citizen. “One thing that really irritates me is publishers standing up and crowing about their commitment to this and that.

“All we are as publishers are facilitators between author and reader. I recognise my role as a publisher is subservient to everyone in the chain — starting from the author and ending with the reader.”

Charkin named his publishing house Mensch, which means a person of integrity and honour.

With the business’s five-year anniversary approching, he is proud that he has stayed true to his vision of being a small publisher who prioritises a personal touch and a close relationships with authors.

Charkin says his authors are often his friends, or have become them, and

he sends them a letter every quarter acknowledging how their books are doing.

The smaller scale of his business allows him to give 25 per cent in royalties to every writer.

This rate is universal – unlike some big publishers – leaving little need for authors to hire expensive agents for negotiations.

“It would be wrong for me to make exceptions for one author against another,” Charkin explained. He’s come a long way since his wife gave him an ultimatum when he was setting up Mensch. She told him he was allowed to lose £10,000 on the business and no more.

With this initial start-up sum in his bank, he got the ball rolling and hasn’t lost money on a book since.

Charkin’s choice of books are primarily non-fiction, ranging from military history and chef Delia Smith’s You Matter to famous jeweller Theo Fennell’s hilarious biography, I Fear for This Boy.

“Theo Fennell came to me through my friend the novelist William Boyd,” Charkin revealed. “He thought Theo was one of the greatest writers around, even though he had never written a

book before. But he just has a facility with sentences to produce something entertaining.”

Mensch has just sold the TV rights for the book, which Fennell wrote during lockdown.

pleas for him to assist with her suicide.

When Charkin rejected his next submission from a different author, which also happened to be about old age, he was persuaded to send it to Guy Kennaway’s mother for a second opinion.

“She thought it was really good, so I took the book on,” he said.

These personal touches are possible because Richard operates as the sole employee.

He proofreads everything himself and uses freelancers for production and design.

Mensch publishes usually between five and 10 books a year and has been sent 300 since it was founded.

in the English language looking for a publisher. An author can send a book to 50 publishers at a time.

“Understandably, big publishers won’t look at books which don’t come from literary agents.

"The big publishers are overdependent on one-off best sellers. They need a book like Spare once a year.”

Charkin believes smaller independent publishers are steadily gaining success because fewer staff means they can be “lighter on their feet”.

His ability to reply to book submissions within 24 hours is one trump card.

Charkin said: “I somehow feel like fiction is better handled by the big publishers.

"I also don’t do children’s because it is quite specialist and it helps to understand."

He added: “I choose the books on the friendliness of the authors. It’s all down to whether they like me and I like them.” He even involves authors in reading submissions.

One of Mensch’s first books was Time To Go by Guy Kennaway, described as a “terribly funny” account of his mother’s

Charkin said: “Nowadays either books are really big and sell in huge quantities or they just disappear. I’m publishing the ones that aren’t necessarily as big, which huge publishers would find it hard to do.

“It’s becoming ever more difficult for non-bestsellers to find any space at publishers.”

He highlighted huge competition as the reason for such polarised rates of author success.

“It is rumoured that there are always around a million completed books

“With big publishers, there are probably five or six layers of management between the decision on whether to publish a title.

“The bigger a company is, the more important it is to have that because they’ve got to have control, but it does slow things down.”

Charkin is glad to have followed in the footsteps of his grandparents – firstgeneration immigrants who settled in Hackney.

“They were all able to start businesses, so I owe a lot to them and to things like the public libraries.

“They didn’t have any money, but they could learn.”

Richard Charkin, founder of Mensch Publishing, at work in his office. Photograph: courtesy Richard Charkin

'It would be wrong for me to make exceptions for one author against another'

Industry veteran Richard Charkin has found success with a light-footed approach to a notoriously competitive business

MARION WEAVER

Cream of the crop

Our resident food historian explores our favourite icy treat, and the chefs and writers for whom it is an obsession

GILLIAN RILEY

It’s a long time since three furtive infants hid a huge tub of commercial ice cream in the supermarket trolley. Back home, their father Robin Weir was horrified not just at the price, but at the ingredients in the small print – none of the cream, milk, eggs, and fresh flavours we have come to expect in honest ice cream, but a lot of what must be the most expensive fresh air on the planet, whipped into a mush of dubious ingredients.

Decades later, Robin and his wife Caroline, knee-deep in ice cream memorabilia, historic equipment, books, prints and grandchildren, wrote what I think is the best book ever on the subject, Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati: The Definitive Guide - a manic collection of explanations and recipes, with amazing illustrations. Alongside this treasure trove of information we can enjoy the food historian Ivan Day’s videos and blog, Food History Jottings

Ivan is unique in having the history of ice cream at his fingertips, along with a working collection of historic equipment to back up his serious collection of printed material and manuscripts. He makes the stuff the way it was done until quite recently. The speed and efficiency of historic methods is impressive. Meanwhile, the name Hackney Gelato may imply a struggle by unknown local lads from small beginnings to eventual recognition. In fact, the pair behind the product, Sam and Enrico, were already accomplished young Italian chefs - and supplying equally successful chefs with sophisticated ice cream for their refined menus - when they sprang fully armed like Athene from the brow of the god Zeus, bringing a deserved reputation

to a receptive public. ‘Hackney’ is now a buzzword for fresh, innovative and creative food, and our friends at Gelato have been astute in their choice of a good site and appreciative clients.

Ice cream as crowd control

Antonio Latini’s recipe books included descriptions of feasts and banquets held in the picturesque countryside outside Naples. No expense was spared to create a carefree, rustic atmosphere, with happy peasants disporting themselves in the streets - not a hint of the social and political unrest seething under the surface.

Latini was wise to avoid whiffs of the political undertones, but describes menus and recipes in much detail. He only mentions in passing the lavish supplies of ice cream offered to even the humblest of the crowd. How can civic unrest happen when restless dissidents have a bowl of delicious ice cream in one hand and a spoon in the other? Keep it coming.

So the court kitchen staff must have been rushed off their feet keeping up with the supply of ice cream. They used a simple technology which has only recently disappeared. We don’t know if it was a crazed boffin in a heatwave in 17th-century Florence, or a cunning Neapolitan entrepreneur, who made the technical breakthrough that changed the shape of puddings forever. Crushed ice mixed with salt creates a much lower temperature than ice on its own, so instead of just cooling a liquid or cream, a pail of ice and salt could freeze the contents of a tub in record time, as Robin Weir and Ivan Day have shown so vividly.

Anti-clockwise from top: Hackney Gelato's sea salted caramel and dark chocolate sorbetto; Enrico and Sam, founders of Hackney Gelato. Photographs: Hackney Gelato; Ivan Day demonstrating historic ice cream-making techniques; author Robin Weir.

Thuthuka Sibisi

Dance and a live choir combine to bring history to life.

The Citizen Gardener: Ecological gardening - do it for baby Leoh

How to work with nature to preserve it for future generations

STEPH GOWARD

A baby came into my life recently. He’s the son of two of my best friends and whilst strolling through Hackney Downs with him in his buggy, I wondered what it might look like when he and his fellow babies are grown up.

I am and always have been an advocate for ecological gardening practices and meeting this sweet little bundle made me think more urgently about how our relationship with the natural world around us today will impact the babies of Hackney in the years to come. We are after all, only Hackney’s current custodians.

Ecological, permacultural, organic, wildlife-friendly, call it what you will, these ideas are all centred on the same core principle: work with, not against nature. Contrary to the actions and instructions of many busybody horticulturalists, plants are actually very capable of looking after themselves without us humans meddling. Gardening needn’t be about our control over nature through the use of synthetic fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides. It is possible to create a space for aesthetic and productive purposes that also encourages biodiversity. And, with the total area of gardens in the UK amounting to approximately 433,000 hectares (that’s about a fifth of the size of Wales), we have a colossal resource of national significance for the thousands of generalist species that can live in gardens.

While ecological gardening may seem like the more expensive, labourintensive option, it is actually quite the opposite.

The key idea is to leave nature to do its thing. When you choose a less invasive gardening practice, the main activity is observation, so more time to sit back in your wild sanctuary. And, in so doing, you will attract more animalspollinators, hedgehogs, birds - which provide endless free entertainment. Here are afew ideas to get your started:

Use what’s already available

Last week I found myself walking up Mare street with a 9 foot Amelanchier precariously balanced on my bike and a wisteria in my backpack, its long tendrils wrapped around my waist. Being Hackney, no one batted an eyelid, I wasn’t even in the top 10 per cent of interesting sights on Mare street that day.

I was on my way home from a plantsaving mission with Siobhán, the garden manager at St Mary’s Secret Garden. We had visited a house in London Fields that is undergoing a garden overhaul by Hackney designer Miria Harris. Miria is committed to making it a zero-waste project so reached out to her instagram followers and invited anyone who wanted some free plants to come and fill their boots. Aside from an excellent business idea (someone please make an app!) rehoming these plants was a joyful way of gardening sustainably and saving them from the dump.

On a smaller scale, propagating plants is a way of sharing what you have without damage or waste. It is also really easy and can be done without a garden. Houseplant cuttings make excellent presents, and seed swaps are a lovely way to meet other green-thumbed folk.

The same notion of using what’s around you can be applied to garden fertiliser.

Last weekend I went for stroll around Hackney marshes on the hunt for comfrey. I snipped a few leaves, covered them in water and have left the concoction in a bucket outside. Within a week it will be a perfectly balance fertiliser that works for most plants given its natural balance of phosphorous, potassium and nitrogen. For plants that like a little more nitrogen, you can make a nettle fertiliser, and for those that like potassium, banana peels soaked in the same way works wonders.

There’s no such thing as garden waste

Refrain from gathering up fallen leaves to burn or throw away. You can rake them straight into the beds for an easy mulch, add them to your compost, or pile them up separately and leave them alone for a year to make leaf mould. Leaf mould rots down fairly quickly so won’t take up too much space. Combined with the soil, it offers a plethora of benefits. It is the perfect environment for mycorrhizal fungi to thrive, which allow plants to better take up nutrients and communicate with each other. It also improves that all important soil structure which helps with drainage and retention.

If, like me, you have been doing a lot of pruning over the past month, you will have a lot of sticks. These can be repurposed as bean poles - hazel and willow work particularly well. Alternatively, you can create a deadhedge, which are linear piles of twigs, sticks and branches. They are good for wildlife - especially for small mammals and birds - giving them somewhere to shelter that is protected from predators and from the wind and rain. If space is at a premium, you can make mini versions under garden benches or along the railings of a balcony.

Any other waste (aside from pernicious weeds) can be put on the compost. Not only is it deeply satisfying to watch your waste turn into a brilliant growing medium, but making your own allows you to avoid the cost, packaging and environmental impact of bought compost. If you do end up buying the ready-made stuff, be sure to avoid peatbased compost as it’s harvested from ancient bogs which are irreplaceable habitats and carbon sinks.

Mow high, mow less

British gardens are famous for their lawns. If left to grow, they quickly turn

to meadow with a surprising number of flowering plant varieties, much to the delight of our endangered pollinators. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing though. ’No Mow May’ is one option. Another is to generally set your blades slightly higher - maybe above the heights of low flowering plants like daisies and buttercups. You can also leave ‘islands’ of long grass or make mazes to play in.

Accept ‘weeds’

An easy way to deal with weeds is to accept some of them. There are those that creep into the garden and add colour, joy and a good source of food for pollinators. And there are the gentler ones, such as daisies, buttercups, dandelions that add beauty to the borders. Indeed, James Wong recently wrote about the scramble among Singaporean gardeners to source dandelion seeds, and the lengths they will go to to have them grow in their tropical climate. Of course, they can spread faster than we would like them to, so a good way of keeping on top of them is to pull them out after flowering but before they go to seed, that way, everyone wins.

Avoid synthetic herbicides, pesticides and fungicides

These chemicals, that are used so widely in the agricultural industry, are bad for humans and wildlife. They do not degrade in the environment and they are made using fossil fuels. There is also a growing body of evidence showing their role in the decline of the nutritional content of our food - down 38 per cent in the UK since the 1950s. What’s more, there really is no need for them, there are natural predators already available in your garden most of which are in decline and would benefit from the food source. Ladybirds, hoverflies and lacewing larvae will eat aphids, while

hedgehogs, birds and frogs will eat slugs and snails.

Thorough washing of your tools at the end of each gardening session will work wonders for disease control. There are defences available in the hedgerow too; old thorny branches (like those of the brambles you pull out) can be laid around your veg bed to deter animals from grazing. Glass cloches placed over your seedlings look chic, keep your plants cosy, encouraging them to grow and will keep slugs from munching.

There are copious places to find inspiration for ecological growing around Hackney. Core Landscapes, one of Hackney’s best loved (and fully organic) community gardens, was represented at the RHS Chelseas show last year by Hackney-based garden designer Andy Smith-Williams who won gold. His garden showcased clever wildlife-friendly garden practices such as a water collection system which allowed for the overflow caused by heavy rainfall to filter into a planter packed with moisture-loving plants. You can check out what Core are up to now at their expanding garden in Homerton. Chelsea promises to showcase even more environmentally friendly gardens this year, so hold tight for coverage of the show this summer. As ever, one of the best ways to get ideas is by chatting with your green-thumbed friends. I’ve never met a gardener I didn’t like, they’re a friendly bunch, so why not open up a conversation and see what other tips and tricks are out there. Your plants, the animals and Baby Leoh will thank you.

Steph Goward is an ecological gardener and food grower. She is the postcode gardener for E5, a horticultural therapist at St Mary’s Secret Garden, and works with a number of gardening groups across Hackney. You can follow her at @steph_orla_gardens.

Left to right: Baby Leoh; garden undergoing a redeisgn led by Miria Harris. Photographs: courtesy Steph Goward; Andy Smith-Williams (centre) holding up his gold-winning garden design for last year's Chelsea flower show. Photograph: Core Landscapes

Demolition Notice

INITIAL DEMOLITION NOTICE

Under Schedule 5A of the Housing Act 1985 as inserted by clause 182 of the Housing Act 2004 and amended by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

This Notice is given by THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY (“The Council”) of its intention to demolish the following properties, including flats and where applicable garages and commercial properties (“the Relevant Premises”):

1-24 Girling House, Colville Estate, London, London, N1 5NN;

1-30 Kellett House, Colville Estate, London, N1 5NJ;

1-16 Ray House, Colville Estate, London, N1 5NL; and The community hall and the garages next to Kellett House.

Reason for Demolition

The Council intends to demolish the Relevant Premises to allow for the building of new homes as part of the Council’s Estate Regeneration Programme.

Demolition Period

The Council will be serving an Initial Demolition Notice primarily upon the secure tenants of the Relevant Premises. This notice will cease to be in force on 23 February 2030, unless revoked or otherwise terminated by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 5A of the Housing Act 1985.

Effect of the Initial Demolition Notice

During the period of validity of this notice, the Council will not be under any obligation to make a freehold transfer or lease under Section 138(1) of the Housing Act 1985 in respect of any claim to exercise the right to buy in respect of any dwelling that is contained in the Relevant Premises. This notice does not prevent the making of a claim under the right to buy or the taking of any steps under this part in connection with any such claim up to the point where section 138(1) would otherwise operate in relation to the claim or the operation of that provision in most circumstances where the notice ceases to be in force but if the landlord subsequently serves a final demolition notice in respect of the relevant premises, the right to buy will not arise in respect of it while that notice is in force and any existing claim will cease to be effective.

Right of Compensation

There may be a right to compensation under Section 138C in respect of certain expenditure incurred in respect of any existing claim to the right to buy. Details of the right to compensation and how this may be exercised are set out in the attached notes (if applicable).

Dated: 24 February 2023

SIGNED By and on behalf of the Council

Authorised signatory

Georgia Lazari

Team Leader (Places)

You may obtain further information about this Notice from:

Miranda Ferrier

Project Manager

Economy, Regeneration & New Homes

Climate, Homes & Economy Hackney Council

1 Hillman Street London, E8 1DY

Tel: 020 8356 3018

Email: miranda.ferrier@hackney.gov.uk

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

Notification of Planning Applications

The following planning applications submitted to the London Borough of Hackney are advertised under Article 13, 15, 16 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) and in accordance with all other relevant statutory requirements arising pursuant to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (as amended) and the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.

2023/0251 – 10 Navarino Road, Hackney, London, E8 1AD – Redesign of the front garden including the replacement of hard standing with planting and permeable surfacing for the reinstatement of a parking space and bin store together with the reconstruction of boundary treatments, including brick walls, piers and gates. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0256 – 222 Richmond Road, Hackney, London, E8 3QN – Erection of rear extension at ground floor level; replacement of windows and doors on the lower ground floor rear elevation; other associated elevational alterations and erection of outbuilding. Affects a conservation area.

2022/3051 – Glory Phone, 377 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HY – Erection of twostorey rear extension at first and second floor levels; erection of mansard-style roof extension; conversion of extended upper floors into two self-contained dwellings accessed from Gould Terrace. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0342 – 23 Buckingham Road, Hackney, London, N1 4DG – Replacement of six singleglazed windows with double-glazed windows on front elevation. Affects a conservation area.

2022/2307 – 18-22 Wilberforce Road, Hackney N4 – Proposed change of use of existing residential accommodation homeless hostel to hotel including self catering accommodation (Class C1). Affects a conservation area.

2023/0336 – 14 Digby Crescent, Hackney, London, N4 2HR – Proposed ground floor single-storey rear extension, and creation of a rear Juliette balcony with balustrade at firstfloor level. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0274 – 122 Evering Road, Hackney, London, N16 7BD – Replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash windows with new timber double glazed windows. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0290 – 82 Brooke Road, London, N16 7RU – Proposed replacement of existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with double glazed timber window units. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0351 – 147 Evering Road, London, N16 7BL – Proposed replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with new timber double glazed window units. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0352 – 44 Jenner Road, London, N16 7SA – Proposed replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with new timber double glazed window units. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0340 – 249 Hackney Road, Hackney, London, E2 8NA – External alterations including replacement of lower ground floor rear window with doors; installation of cast iron vent on front elevation at basement level; installation of two rooflights in rear roofslope. Affects a conservation area and a listed building. [Note for consultation: Listed Building Consent application 2023/0341 also received].

2023/0341 – 249 Hackney Road, Hackney, London, E2 8NA – Internal alterations including remodelling of ground floor rear outrigger; remodelling of second floor rear room to provide en-suite facilities; remodelling of third floor front room and -provision of new partition to provide new bathroom; External alterations including replacement of lower ground floor rear window with doors; installation of cast iron vent on front elevation at basement level; installation of two rooflights in rear roofslope. Listed Building Consent. [Note for consultation: Planning application 2023/0340 also received]

2021/2630 – Footpath outside 233 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AN – Erection of a free standing electronics structure following removal of existing phone box. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0154 – 5-6 Lee Street, Hackney, London, E8 4DY – Erection of rear extensions at second and third floor levels; conversion of extended property into three self-contained residential units; provision of roof terrace. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0165 – 12 Graham Road, Hackney, London, E8 1BZ – Variation of conditions 2 (development according to approved plans 3 (boundary /privacy screen, 4 (materials), 6 (trees) & removal of condition 5 (flank wall windows) of planning permission reference 2019/4012 for the erection of timber fence and steel staircase in the rear yard. Alterations to first floor rear terrace. Reflective film privacy screening to be included on the ground and basement rearward windows. Replacement of the front steel railing with a brick wall and planter. Dated 13/03/2020. The effect of the variation would be to replace the boundary fence with privacy screen, details of external materials to exclude boundary fence/stairwell and omission of the re-planting of the 2 trees. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0219 – 18-19 Glebe Road, Hackney, London, E8 4BD – Insertion of a single window on the front elevation at ground floor. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0232 – 85d Forest Road, Hackney, London, E8 3BT – Creation of a roof terrace on the flat roof together with associated works including stairs, balustrade and planting. Affects a conservation area.

2022/3099 – 51 Digby Crescent, Hackney, London, N4 2HS – Excavation and extension of a basement including front and rear light wells; single storey rear ground floor extension; rear dormer roof extension; alterations to outrigger; roof terraces; to allow for the conversion of a single dwelling into 4 x residential units. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0238 – Flat A, 155 Blackstock Road, London, N4 2JS – Proposed demolition of existing rear dormer, and erection of an enlarged replacement rear dormer. Installation of two rooflights to the front elevation. Affects a conservation area.

2021/2633 – Footpath outside Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 7HU – Erection of a free standing electronics structure. Affects a conservation area.

2022/2919 – 110 Brooke Road, Hackney, London, N16 7RT – Replacement of the existing slate tile roofing with new natural slate roofing finish, new felt, insulation, fascias and soffits. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0113 – 83 Maury Road, Hackney, London, N16 7BT – Excavation front and rear light wells, to provide two additional HMO rooms at basement level. Affects a conservation area.

2022/2733 – 163 Brooke Road, Hackney, London, E5 8AG – Installation of air source heat pump in front garden. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0240 – 5 Clapton Passage, Hackney, London, E5 8HS – Construction of a rear roof extension together with the installation of rooflights in the front roofslope. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0287 – 185 Evering Road, Hackney, London, E5 8AN – Replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with new timber double glazed windows. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0401 – Springfield House, 5 Tyssen Street, London, E8 2LY – Proposed installation of new entrance door on North elevation; relocation of existing sliding warehouse door on north elevation; installation of new glazed side panels to entrance door on North elevation; associated landscaping works.

Affects a conservation area.

2023/0257 – 48 Sutton Square, London, E9 6EQ – Proposed loft conversion and installation of No.2 rooflights to the front elevation and No.3 rooflights to the rear elevation. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0231 – 27 Forburg Road, Hackney, London, N16 6HP – Erection of a single storey rear extension at ground floor level; rear infill extension at basement floor level with steps to the garden. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0265 – 175 Evering Road, Hackney, London, N16 7BH – Replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with new timber double glazed windows. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0266 – Flat A, 92 Brooke Road, London, N16 7RT – Proposed replacement of existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with double glazed timber and uPVC units. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0250 – 34 Colvestone Crescent, London, E8 2LH – Erection of a rear dormer and installation of roof lights to the front roof slope. Affects a conservation area.

2023/0363 – 32 Brenthouse Road, Hackney, London, E9 6QG – Proposed replacement of the existing glazed timber sash and casement windows with double glazed timber windows.

Affects a conservation area.

2023/0273 – 129 Evering Road, Hackney, London, N16 7BU – Replacement of the existing single glazed timber sash and casement windows with new timber double glazed windows. Affects a conservation area.

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY NOTICE OF STOPPING UP ORDER MADE BY THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY PURSUANT OF SECTION 247 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (AS AMENDED)

THE HACKNEY (BROADWAY MEWS) (STOPPING UP) ORDER 2023

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The London Borough of Hackney (“the Council’’) on 24th February 2023 made an Order under Section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) to stop up the part of the highway measuring approximately 50 square metres in length at the most eastern end of Broadway Mews (rear of 147-149). As described in Schedule 1 of this notice.

2. The title of the Order is The Hackney (Broadway Mews) (Stopping Up) Order 2023.

3. A copy of the Order and the accompanying plan showing the lengths and areas of highway being stopped up can be viewed between 9am and 5pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, in the visitors reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street London, E8 1DY by appointment only. Further information may also be obtained by contacting the Helpdesk on 020 8356 8991 and quoting the above TT reference number, for a period of 6 weeks from the date of this notice being published.

4. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order, or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or that any requirement of the Act or of any instrument under the Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks of the date on which the Order is made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023.

Aled Richards

Strategic Director, Sustainability and Public Realm (The officer appointed for this purpose)

Schedule 1

Areas of Public Highway to be Stopped Up

In relation to the development at 143-145 Clapton Common in order to construct the extension in accordance with the approved plans (planning application 2022/0813 as amended). The stopping up order is required to facilitate the development of the existing building Carmel 143-145 Clapton Common.

Broadway Mews - Area of highway measuring approximately 50 square metres in length at the most eastern end of Broadway Mews (rear of 147-149).

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

THE HACKNEY (PRESCRIBED ROUTES AND 20 MPH SPEED LIMIT) (AMENDMENT

No.62) ORDER 2023

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 24th February 2023 the Council of the London Borough of Hackney made the above mentioned Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (“the Act”) and all other enabling powers as amended.

2. The general effect of the Order is as follows:

● Hyde Road - make permanent a prohibition of driving from its junction with Pitfield Street to its junction with Northport Street.

● Pitfield Street - make permanent a prohibition of driving from a point 15m south of its junction with Hemsworth Street in both directions.

● Access will be permitted for any vehicle being used for Police, Fire Brigade or Ambulance purposes, Hackney Council waste services vehicles and pedal cycles at all times.

3. Copies of the Order, which will come into force on 27th February 2023, other relevant Orders, and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders, can be inspected for a period of six weeks from the date on which the Orders are made by email request to streetscene.consultations@ hackney.gov.uk. Alternatively such documents can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays, in the visitor’s reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY by appointment only

4. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order, or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or that any requirement of the Act or of any instrument under the Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks of the date on which the Order is made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023

Tyler Linton

Acting Head of Streetscene

(The officer appointed for this purpose)

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

THE HACKNEY (PRESCRIBED ROUTES AND 20 MPH SPEED LIMIT) (AMENDMENT No.63) ORDER 2023

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 24th February 2023 the Council of the London Borough of Hackney made the above mentioned Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (“the Act”) and all other enabling powers as amended.

2. The general effect of the Order is as follows:

● Downs Park Road - implement one way from a point 8.5m to the east of the southeast corner of Independent Place for 75m westwards with an exemption for pedal cycles to allow for westbound contraflow movement.

3. Copies of the Order, which will come into force on 27th February 2023, other relevant Orders, and other documents giving more

detailed particulars of the Orders, can be inspected for a period of six weeks from the date on which the Orders are made by email request to streetscene.consultations@ hackney.gov.uk. Alternatively such documents can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays, in the visitor’s reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY by appointment only

4. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order, or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or that any requirement of the Act or of any instrument under the Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks of the date on which the Order is made, apply for the purpose to the High Court.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023

Tyler Linton Acting Head of Streetscene (The officer appointed for this purpose)

LONDON

BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

THE HACKNEY (WAITING, LOADING AND STOPPING RESTRICTIONS) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No. **) ORDER 2023

THE HACKNEY (PARKING PLACES) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No. **) ORDER 2023

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Hackney proposes to make the above-mentioned orders under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended.

2. The general effect of the orders will be as follows:

a) Bethune Road - replace 2.5 metres of permit bay outside Nos. 40 to 44 Bethune Road with a cycle hangar.

b) St Kildas Road - replace the cycle hangar to the side of No.15 Bethune Road with a permit bay.

c) Brighton Road - replace the personalised permit bay outside No. 7 with a permit bay.

d) Christie Road - replace 6.6 metres of permit bay outside No. 9 with a personalised permit bay – 00224.

e) Cornthwaite Road - replace 2.5 metres of permit bay outside No. 7 Fletching Road with a cycle hangar.

f) Fletching Road - replace the cycle hangar alongside No. 1 Fletching Road with a permit bay.

g) Daubeney Road (Chowdhury Walk)introduce double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions throughout Chowdhury Walk.

h) Downham Road - replace a residents’ parking outside No. 98 with a personalised permit bay - 00223.

i) Overbury Street - replace the disabled bay outside Nos. 31 to 33 with a personalised permit bay - 00222.

j) Primrose Square - replace the disabled bay outside No. 33 with a permit bay.

k) Stamford Road - replace the resident permit bay outside Nos. 47 to 49 with a shared use parking bay and replace the shared use outside Nos. 26 to 28a with a resident permit bay.

3. Plans of the proposed locations can be viewed here - https://www.hackneytraffweb. co.uk/ Documents giving more detailed particulars are available for inspection by email request to streetscene.consultations@ hackney.gov.uk. Alternatively Such documents can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays, in the visitor’s reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY by appointment only

4. Any objections or other representations about either of the orders should be sent in writing to Streetscene – Networks Team at the address specified in paragraph 3 above or emailed to streetscene.consultations@ hackney.gov.uk within 21 days from the date on which this Notice is published. All objections must specify the grounds on which they are made.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023

Tyler Linton

Acting Head of Streetscene

(The officer appointed for this purpose)

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NDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

THE HACKNEY (WAITING, LOADING AND STOPPING RESTRICTIONS) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No.*) ORDER 2023

THE HACKNEY (PARKING PLACES) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No.*) ORDER 2023

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Hackney proposes to make the above-mentioned Orders under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended.

2. The general effect of the Orders will be to introduce Dockless cycle hire bays in the following locations:

Road Name Location

Amhurst Road directly outside the extended boundary line of numbers 96/98 and 100 for a distance of 5m westwards, replace shared use bay.

Belsham Street

10.1m south from the extended boundary line of number 70 Morning Lane and 24 Belsham Street for a distance of 5m southwards, replace shared use bay.

Britannia Walk 17.3m north from the junction with City Road, for a distance of 5m northwards replace pay and display bay.

Brookfield Road 0.7m north from the extended boundary line of numbers 12/14, for a distance of 5m northwards, replace permit holders bay.

Culford Road 3.2m South from the building line of number 167 Culford Road for a distance 7.3m northwards, replace with permit holders bay.

Darnley Road 5.8m east from the extended building line of number 222 Mare Street, for a distance of 5m eastwards replace loading bay.

Downs Park Road 4.1m east from the extended boundary line of numbers 43/45 for a distance of 5m eastwards, replace residents permit holders bay.

Enfield Road 6m northwest of the extended building line of number 42 for a distance of 5m northwest, replace residents permit holders bay.

Gransden Avenue 21.5m north of the junction with Lamb lane for a distance of 5m northwards, replace permit holders bay.

Lansdowne Drive (1) 5.4m northwest of the extended building line of number 1 and 2 Bernard Hegarty Lodge for a distance of 5m northwest, replace permit holders only bay.

Lansdowne Drive (2) 3.8m southeast of the extended boundary line of numbers 57/59 for a distance of 5m southeast, replace permit holders bay.

Long Street 2.6m north of the extended building line of number 2 for a distance of 5m northwards, replace permit holders bay.

Mentmore Terrace 15.4m north of the extended building line of number 22 for a distance of 5m northwards, replace permit holders bay.

Pearson Street 0.6m east of the extended boundary line of numbers 47/49 on the opposite side of the road for a distance of 5m eastwards, replace residents permit holders bay.

Phillipp Street 6.9m east of the extended building line of number 10 Whitmore Road for a distance of 5m eastwards, replace permit holders bay.

Poole Road 8.3m southeast of the extended building line of number 214 Well Street for a distance of 5m, replace permit holders bay.

Queen Elizabeth’s Walk 0.2m north of the extended building line of number 55 Lordship Park for a distance of 5m northwards, replace permit holders bay.

Queensdown Road directly outside the extended building line of number 2 for a distance of 5m southwards, replace permit holders bay.

Sheep Lane 4.5m north of the extended building line of number 35 Andrews Road for a distance of 5m northwards, replace shared use bay.

Shore Road 3.7m from the extended boundary line of number 46b Well Street and 1-20 Park House Shore Road for a distance of 5m, replace permit holders bay.

Sigdon Road directly outside the extended building line of numbers 53-57 for a distance of 5m, replace permit holders bay.

St Peter’s Way

12m west from the junction with Kingsland Road for a distance of 5m westwards, replace residents permit bay.

Warburton Road 8.6m west of the extended building line of number 137 Mare Street for a distance of 5m westwards, replace shared use bay.

Wilson Street

Worship Street

1.9m north from the extended building line of number 4 Christopher Street for a distance of 5m southwards, replace motor cycle bay.

12.1m west from the extended building line of number 9 Appold Street for a distance of 5m westwards, replace pay and display bay.

3. Plans of the proposed locations can be viewed here - https://www.hackneytraffweb. co.uk/ Documents giving more detailed particulars are also available for inspection by email request to streetscene.consultations@hackney.gov.uk. Alternatively Such documents can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays, in the visitor’s reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY by appointment only

4. Any objections or other representations about either of the Orders should be sent in writing to Streetscene – Networks Team at the address specified in paragraph 3 above or emailed to streetscene.consultations@hackney.gov.uk within 21 days from the date on which this Notice is published. All objections must specify the grounds on which they are made.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023

Tyler Linton Acting Head of Streetscene (The officer appointed for this purpose)

Licensing Notice

London Borough of Hackney Notice under the Licensing Act 2003

Notice is hereby given that Mr. Aamir Mirza applied to Hackney Council for a premises licence at: Buns and Roosters, 66 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS

In order that the following licensable activities can take place:

Provision of late night refreshment

Sunday to Thursday from 23:00 to 02:30

Friday and Saturday from 23:00 to 03:30

The licence register listing details of the application is held at the Licensing Service, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London E8 1DY (Tel No. 020 8356 4970).

Details are also available online at www.hackney.gov.uk/licensing.

Any representations against this application must be made in writing and received by the Licensing Service at the above address, by no later than 14th March 2023.

Residents and businesses in the vicinity of the premises, or their representatives, may make representations on licensing objectives grounds only, i.e. the prevention of crime and disorder, the prevention of public nuisance, public safety and the protection of children from harm

Copies of all representations will be sent to the applicant. It is an offence, liable on conviction to a fine up to £5000 for an applicant to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with the application.

Statutory Notices – Licensing

We, the London Borough of Hackney, give notice that we intend to make the following orders in the first part of the Table below, and have made the orders in the second part of the Table, in each case for the reasons and duration dates stated and with alternative diversion routes available

Tyler Linton, Acting Head of Streetscene, 24 February 2023

Proposed Restriction (Proposed Notice)

Confirmed Restriction (Made Notice)

You can get more information and make comments about this Proposed and Made Orders by contacting the helpline on 0208 356 2897

TRAFFIC

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

THE HACKNEY (WAITING, LOADING AND STOPPING RESTRICTIONS) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No. **)

ORDER 2023

THE HACKNEY (PARKING PLACES) (MAP BASED) (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT No. **) ORDER 2023

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 -

SECTION 23

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Hackney proposes to make the above-mentioned Orders under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended.

2. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the London Borough of Hackney, in accordance with the Road Traffic Regulation Act Section 23 as amended proposes to remove a pelican crossing and introduce a toucan crossing, as detailed in schedule 1 of this notice.

3. The general effect of the Orders will be as follows:

Kenninghall Road (north side)

a) Remove 29m of shared use parking bays outside numbers 59 to 61 (opposite Powell Road junction) and replace with double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions.

b) Remove 23.1m of shared use parking bays outside numbers 55 to 57 (30.5m west from

the junction with Powell Road) and replace it with 8.1m double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions

Kenninghall Road (south side)

c) Remove 14.5m of permit holder only bay outside numbers 36 to 55 (19.5m west from the Powell Road junction) and replace with double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions.

d) Remove 6m of permit holder only bay outside numbers 59 to 61 (40.8m west from the Powell Road junction) and replace with double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions.

Lea Bridge Road

a) Extend the double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions on the northern side of Lea Bridge Road junction with Lea Bridge roundabout by 5m west.

b) Implement 66.5m double yellow lines, no waiting “at any time” restrictions on the northern side of Lea Bridge Road, from outside number 43 to junction with Cornthwaite Road.

SCHEDULE 1

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

a) Remove the pelican crossing on A104 Lea Bridge Road to the west of the junction with Cornthwaite Road.

b) Introduce a new 10m wide toucan crossing over the carriageway of the A104 Lea Bridge Road to the east of the junction with Cornthwaite Road. Introduce 17m zigzag lines on the approach to, and exit from,

the crossing.

4. Documents giving more detailed particulars are available for inspection by email request to streetscene.consultations@hackney. gov.uk. Alternatively Such documents can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays, in the visitor’s reception area, London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY by appointment only

5. Any objections or other representations about the Orders should be sent in writing to

Licensing Notice

Streetscene – Networks Team at the address specified in paragraph 4 above or emailed to streetscene.consultations@hackney.gov. uk within 21 days from the date on which this Notice is published. All objections must specify the grounds on which they are made.

Dated this 24th day of February 2023

Tyler Linton Acting Head of Streetscene (The officer appointed for this purpose)

London Borough of Hackney Notice under the London Local Authorities Act 1991

Notice is hereby given that Debut Studios Tattoo Limited has applied to Hackney Council for a massage and special treatment licence (tattooing / body piercing / ear piercing / microblading).

Licence for the premises: Debut Studios, Lower Ground Floor West, 36-42 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EY.

Anyone wishing to oppose the application must give notice, in writing, to the Licensing Service Manager, London Borough of Hackney, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY, within THREE WEEKS from the date of publication of this notice (24 February 2023), specifying the grounds for opposition.

Persons objecting to the grant of a licence must be prepared to attend a hearing before a Committee of the Council.

Statutory Notices – Licensing