‘History will judge’: Morning Lane campaigners to fight on despite warning from Hackney Mayor over affordable housing

Campaigners have pledged to continue pushing for more public housing after Hackney’s mayor said a controversial town centre development would struggle to ensure half the homes are offered for social rent.

Cllr Garbett said: “While it sounds great when the mayor says that the priorities of the local community will be put first, it is only because community groups like Morning Lane People’s Space have proactively investigated and championed what people living in the area really want, and now it sounds as if they risk being sidelined by the council.

“The community needs to be treated as an equal partner, alongside the in-house team and the new developer, in the development of the site.”

She said she will “continue to interrogate the viability assessment that the mayor indicates will preclude the community’s desire for at least 50 per cent social housing on the site”.

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