Welcome to this website to get our local Hackney Community voice heard in the proposals for the development of the 55 Morning Lane Tesco site.
We’re having a public meeting on Saturday 11th April 1-3pm in Dan West Community Hall, with lunch from 12pm. It’s a chance to ask Council candidates about their plans for the site.
It took nearly three years after their deal with dodgy developer Hackney Walk Ltd ended for Hackney Council to start consulting residents. When they did, they claimed to listen but failed to change their plans.
We were told that in Autumn 2025 Hackney Council cabinet would make a decision on the site’s future. But everything has gone quiet. They haven’t even published the result of the consultation that ended last April.
Click here to read our devastating report on the failures of Hackney’s Council’s ‘consultation’
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Keep up with the latest from the campaign with our blog posts
Our first meeting with Hackney’s new council
On Monday 10th August, six MOPS members attended a meeting in Hackney Town Hall with Green Councillor Alastair Binnie Lubbock and Deputy Mayor Dylan Law to talk about their plans for the Tesco site in Hackney Central. Alastair has cabinet responsibility for this and other development sites. It was good to be back in the…
Our communication with the new Hackney councillors
On 7 June, about a month after their election, we emailed Hackney Council’s new Mayor Zoë Garbett, Deputy Mayor Dylan Law and cabinet member with responsibility for 55 Morning Lane Alastair Binnie Lubbock. They responded positively a week later and we’ll be meeting Dylan and Alastair in early August. Below is our correspondence. After offering…
Hackney Council elections
On 7th May, Hackney residents voted for change, electing a Green Mayor and replacing most of the Labour councillors with Greens. This desire for new leadership in Hackney was evident at our last public meeting on Saturday 11th April, which was an opportunity to question candidates in the then upcoming elections. We were joined by…
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