Consultation
Culture calling
Are you interested in arts and cultural projects in Hackney?
If so the Council wants to hear your views on an arts strategy for the new Dalston Square development.
Hackney has funding to run arts projects in the Dalston area up until the opening of the square.
The Council is collecting the contact details of people who would be interested in taking part in these projects.
This is also your chance to tell us about the kind of arts and cultural projects you want to see in the square.
To make your views known, email: lucy.mcmenemy@hackney.gov.uk before 30 October.
Eyes on what?
Residents who took part in a major Council survey have said that crime, regeneration, and keeping Hackney clean are their top priorities.
Nearly 200 people were consulted in January through Hackney Today and the Council’s website about what issues they wanted to see reviewed by the Council’s scrutiny commissions. Of these, 56 per cent of residents said priorities should include crime and ways of preventing it; 37 per cent said affordable housing; and 34 per cent said keeping Hackney clean.
Other priorities included activities for teenagers (29 per cent); education services (26 per cent); the local economy and shopping facilities (18 per cent); local health service (16 per cent); and cultural facilities (8 per cent). As a result of residents’ feedback, the scrutiny commissions’ responsibilities were reevaluated.
The Regeneration and Social Inclusion scrutiny commission will change its name to Community Safety and Social Inclusion and focus on crime and disorder.
The Living in Hackney scrutiny commission will conduct a review this month of how the Council and its partners provide affordable housing.
For more info or to attend a scrutiny commission meeting, visit: the Scrutiny pages or call: 020 8356 3341.
About Consultation in Hackney
The Council carries out up to 100 consultations each year. These cover different issues, from putting in a zebra crossing or controlled parking zone to writing a 10-year plan to improve opportunities for children and young people in the borough to a strategy for improving Hackney’s markets.
We have different ways of finding out your views and want to make it easy for you to tell us what you think. We might send you a questionnaire, write a feature in the Council’s newspaper Hackney Today, invite you along to an exhibition or hear from you at a public meeting. You might even see us at your local shopping centre or at an event in a park near you.
Search our online database of consultations to look for and respond to consultations by subject that you are interested in, the area you live in and register to receive regular updates.
Page updated: 9 Oct 2008