Contact Hackney Council

Select the service area you need to contact from the list below.

It’s often quicker and easier to access a service through our website. Take a look at the popular tasks for a service area to see what you can do online.

Our phone lines are open on:

  • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am to 5pm
  • Wednesday from 9am to 4pm

If you can’t hear or speak on the phone, you can type what you want to say using Relay UK with the app or a textphone. Find out how to use Relay UK (opens in new tab).

Visit the Service Centre

The Service Centre is open on:

  • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am to 5pm
  • Wednesday from 9am to 4pm

The address is:

Hackney Service Centre
1 Hillman Street
London
E8 1DY

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Get help using our online services

Our Customer Services team offers a wide range of support to help everybody use our online services.

Our help can include accessing your online accounts, requesting a council service or submitting documents.

Ways we can help include:

  • guiding you through using our online services over the phone
  • face-to-face support in the Hackney Service Centre where you can use our free computers and tablets
  • asking one of our internal or external service partners to help you – we always ask for your permission to share your personal information with any third-party organisation

We have limited resources so we may ask if you can get help in the first instance from your support network, such as friends or family.

Page updated on: 4 March 2025