Castleforge are in talks with Hackney Council to back out from - or adapt - the 2017 agreement.

New piece in @londonermag.bsky.social this morning on the current status of Haggerston Baths! The private equity scheme to restore the building... is not going so well. Still derelict after 8 years, and Hackney Council now spends over £200,000 p/a on security www.the-londoner.co.uk/haggerston-b...

After years of population decline, wildlife is on the up at Hackney Marshes. @petercarlyon.bsky.social spoke to ecologists at ReNature London and the Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston to find out how they did it.

lovely stuff!

re-reading this wonderful piece from last year on the Hackney Mole Man. If Iain Sinclair painted him as a colourful eccentric seeking revenge against the British, here Lyttle comes across far more aimless and troubled

For the past few years, residents of Fellows Court in Shoreditch have watched as the council-owned block has crumbled around them. Peter visited to hear more about the leaks, fires and flooding that residents have put up with.