Elite architects rally round to save Robin Hood Gardens
Britain’s architectural elite go head-to-head with Tower Hamlets Council over the planned demolition of a Brutalist-era housing estate.
Annalies Winny
Freelance journalist based between Baltimore, MD, New York City and Monrovia, Liberia, covering the impact of development and public policy on citizens, from industrial fishing in West Africa to England’s ‘free schools’ to America’s debt collection and bail systems. News writer for Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Alum of London and its beloved local, The Hackney Citizen.
The Economist, The Guardian, VICE News, HuffPost, CityLab, American Bar Association Journal, Prospect magazine, Baltimore City Paper, Hackney Citizen and others.
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Crowd-funding charity may withold funding from Building Lives to support apprentices it made redundant
Mecca Bingo on Hackney Road to close
Shutting down iconic club will ‘devastate friendships’ say members
Hackney Energy offers shares to fund solar start-up
Community group sets out to raise £142,000 to fund borough’s first community-owned solar project
Hackney Mayor accused over tower plans for Shoreditch and Hackney Downs
Consistency of the mayor’s position on tall buildings questioned
Council joins bid to impose nightly accommodation rent cap on private sector
London Councils reach agreement as spiralling costs for short-term housing forces boroughs into bidding wars
Public outrage mounts amid plans for Stamford Hill anti-Jewish rally
Racist group insists rally will go ahead despite widespread opposition
London Fields Brewery owner Jules Whiteway given extra time to repay ‘drugs money’ to taxpayer
Ringleader of ‘prolific’ drugs ring defers repayment of ill-gotten gains while craft brewery grows
Invisible and living on our streets: the plight of Hackney’s homeless
Lives lived and lost in our midst by those ‘outside of society’
University of East London opens Islamic Finance Research Hub
Business school Dean Nora Colton says popularity of sharia banking is growing – and not just among Muslims
