Thames Water to cut down 80 trees to protect pipes beneath Hackney woodland
Utility giant’s plans receive backing from local conservationists as it aims to ‘keep taps flowing for customers’
Gerry Tissier
Campaigners hail council’s ‘ambitious and urgent’ new greenprint for Hackney
The plans highlight seven areas of the borough in need of more green space
‘Devastation’: Residents on Hackney estate urge council to stop using weedkiller after their herbs were destroyed
Calls for biodiversity training for Town Hall contractors after plants on Kingsgate estate were laid to waste
‘Why destroy a beautiful wildlife corridor?’ Residents question Hackney Council over ‘weeding’ of tree pits
Locals in shock after the flowers they had planted around street trees were pulled up
Young artists invited to design a mural featuring Hackney’s threatened species
Homerton Green forum teams up with climate change organisation to raise awareness of local wildlife
Daubeney Fields playground transformation an ‘instant hit’ with families
Council and local community turn ‘bleak’ 1970s rec ground into a natural play space with an outdoor classroom
Smashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift
A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together
Legal row brewing between campaigners and council over Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over local people but states legal challenge to plans has no grounds
Campaigners considering legal action after council approves Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall’s plan for 11 ‘genuinely affordable’ homes gets go-ahead – but new, permanent site for garden fails to win over opponents
Hackney Council denies claim of a ‘democratic deficit’ in bid to build on Clapton community garden
Town Hall’s application to create 11 affordable homes on Daubeney Road will go before a planning committee next week
Homerton residents launch campaign to hire a gardener for an entire postcode
Crowdfunder builds on recent project to make one road in E5 ten times greener
Campaign to save Clapton community garden pins hopes on 1980s mural
Residents calling on council to rethink its house-building plans are worried the artwork could be lost – despite a vow to retain it
Council and residents clash over future of Clapton car park
Town Hall wants to build 11 affordable homes on the site of a community garden