Get Hackney Pro’s

The London Borough of Hackney is a north east London Borough inside Inner London in the UK. Southern and eastern parts of the borough are popularly, but unofficially, regarded as being part of east London, with northern and western locations deemed to belong to north London. The London Plan, issued by the Greater London Authority, assigns whole boroughs to sub-regions for statutory monitoring, engagement and resource allocation purposes. The latest 2011 iteration of this strategy assigns Hackney to the ‘East’ sub-region, although the 2008 and 2004 versions assigned the borough to ‘North’ and ‘East’ sub-regions respectively. Hackney is bounded by Islington towards the west, Haringey towards the north, Waltham Forest to the north-east, Newham to the east, Tower Hamlets towards the south-east and the City of London to the south-west. It covers a total area of 7.36 square miles. In line with population estimates from 2014, the borough includes a permanent population of around 263150 individuals. A great deal of Hackney retains an inner-city character, but in such areas as Dalston large housing estates have been joined by newly developed gated communities. In South Hackney, near Victoria Park, terraced Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian housing still survives. To the east is the big open space of Hackney Marshes as well as the districts of Hackney Wick and Homerton. Light industries in the space around the River Lea employ over 3000 staff. Some of the area was made use of for the 2012 Summer Olympics.