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Architects appointed to explore new ideas for homes, workspace and community spaces in Dalston and Hackney Central
25th January 2023
Affordable homes, new workspaces and community spaces are among the priorities for architects appointed to explore how Council-owned land in Dalston and Hackney Central can be used to support thriving, greener and more sustainable town centres.Dalston and Hackney Central are the two largest town centres in the borough. With Hackney facing a housing affordability crisis, Council-owned sites in Dalston and Hackney Central town centres will contribute to the Council's Cabinet ambitious plans to deliver 1000 new Council homes by 2026.Hackney-based business Adam Khan Architects have been appointed to consider how nine the sites in Dalston and Hackney Central, most of which are allocated for redevelopment in the Council’s Local Plan, can be better used to help meet growing demand for affordable housing and workspaces, as well as community facilities and commercial space and bring about positive changes in our town centres.The nine locations include opportunity sites around Dalston Lane and Ashwin Street in Dalston, and sites across Hackney Central which last week received £19m in levelling up funding to transform public spaces.Early technical work is underway by the architects to determine specific issues that any future designs would need to consider. Following this, the Council will begin community engagement and co-design on the sites, building on ongoing conversations with residents, community groups and businesses, including more than 7,000 contributions from local people gathered through the Dalston Conversation and the Hackney Central Conversation – the Council’s largest ever local engagement exercises.The Council and Adam Khan Architects will engage with local residents and stakeholders later in 2023 on emerging design ideas for the sites. Find out more about the nine sites and about the Council's plans for Dalston and Hackney Central.The full design team includes:Adam Khan Architects: lead architectmuf architecture/art: public realm and landscapeApparata: collaborating architectFreehaus: collaborating architectJA Project: collaborating architectLandolt + Brown: rail specialist architect
Foster carers to be exempt from paying council tax
24th January 2023
Hackney foster carers will no longer have to pay council tax in recognition of the invaluable contribution they make to the lives of the borough's most vulnerable children, the Council's Cabinet agreed last night. The exemption will apply to all foster carers who live in the borough. Those who don’t - and for whom the council cannot waive council tax - will be given an extra £10 per week as a contribution to their council tax costs in the boroughs in which they live. More than 90 locally-based foster carers are set to benefit from the scheme, which will come into force from April this year, and see them save an average £1,671 per year, based on the current Band D council tax rate. While a further 73 living out of borough will benefit from the weekly addition. Find out more about changing a child’s life through fostering here; or call the team directly on: 0800 0730 418.Hackney Council has unlocked more than £5m of support to residents to help them counter the increase in day-to-day items and outgoings as a result of the cost of living crisis engulfing the country, including direct payments to support those in severe hardship and who have no other source of monetary support available.If you would like to know what help and support is available to you, both locally and nationally, you can read the Council's Here to Help guide (also being distributed across the borough and available in all libraries); or you can also contact our team of specialist advisors - called the Money Hub - here or by calling 020 8356 3111.
