Hackney Walk News Today

Capital-driven regeneration projects rarely deliver because they focus on profit, not local people’s needs.

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The plan was to take old railway arches in a run-down area of east London and turn them into a high-end fashion hub. Instead, Hackney Walk ended up deserted. What went so disastrously wrong?

In straitened times, debauchery can seem the only answer to hard reality, says writer and poet Max Wallis

Campaigners fighting for more council homes and a bigger supermarket at a town centre site are holding a public meeting.

Read our ever-growing list of museums, pubs, shops, restaurants and other places that we sadly lost in 2023.

Hackney Walk, a £100m designer shopping outlet, has seen all but one of the shops shut as business dwindled. Billed as Londons first luxury shopping outlet, it received £1.5m from City Hall.

Campaigners are urging politicians to rebuild trust over the redevelopment of a multi-million pound town centre site after its agreement with a…

Campaigners are urging politicians to rebuild trust over the redevelopment of a multi-million pound town centre site after its agreement with a…

Town Hall bosses have signalled they are open to hearing from more developers with ideas for a controversial site in Hackney Central.