Empire grabs residents’ light (0)
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The Hackney Empire has won permission to go ahead with the development on Sylvester Path that could turn the historic path into a gloomy alley. At the planning meeting on Wednesday protestors, headed by local residents Jean Field and Lucy Teather, secured a slight amendment to the plan that could see the preservation of part [...]
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Muldoon slams Empire plans (0)
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Roland Muldoon, former CEO and Artistic Director 86/05 who, with Claire Muldoon, led a team to save the theatre in 1986 and helped it to national prominence, has revealed his feelings about the crisis at the Hackney Empire.
“What a terrible sad state of affairs has our beloved Hackney Empire fallen into? Now, it is claimed, [...]
Empire threatens 1,000 year history (1)
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The decision to build a seven-storey block of flats in a conservation area to pay for Hackney Empire’s financial shortfall is to be heard on 10th March.
Hettie returns? (0)
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Former Queensbridge Councillor and Malvern Road resident Hettie Peters wants to return to the Council because she believes, “the young people and children of Hackney are being ignored.”
Rents up – again (0)
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Hackney Council has raised rents by an average of 76 pence a week despite the recession. Hackney been increasing the costs for residents of housing estates even though many are home to the most deprived families in London. Residents on estates pay twice for the collection of their rubbish and street lighting (through Council tax [...]
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