Councillor Michael Desmond

Extraordinary, Corporate Committee - Wednesday 4 December 2024 6.00 pm

This meeting of the Corporate Committee was an extraordinary meeting called to make decisions on the membership of the council's Planning Sub-Committee. This included approving the existing membership of the sub-committee and confirming how any future changes to the membership will be managed.

Council - Wednesday 27 November 2024 7.00 pm

This meeting was the third ordinary meeting of the 2024/2025 Municipal Year. It included discussion of a petition, scheduled questions from members of the public and Councillors, a report on the work of the Standards Committee, and consideration of motions on the hostile environment, rough sleeping, drug harm reduction and the two-child benefit cap. It also included the appointment of Councillors to outside bodies and the review of political balance on the Council's committees.

Planning Sub-Committee - Pre-Application - Wednesday 20 November 2024 6.30 pm

This meeting has been cancelled.

Corporate Committee - Wednesday 13 November 2024 6.30 pm

This meeting of the Corporate Committee was scheduled to include a presentation of data on the gender and ethnicity pay gap in Hackney Council, as well as the proposed fees and charges for markets, street trading and shop fronts for 2025/26. The committee was also scheduled to consider the minutes of its previous meeting.

Planning Sub-Committee - Wednesday 6 November 2024 6.30 pm

The committee approved three planning applications. A development at Harvest House on Leeside Road was approved, with an increase in the height of the building on the side facing the road to seven storeys, from the six storeys of the approved, but not yet built, scheme. A mixed use scheme at 1 Vince Street and 229-233a Old Street was also approved, which would see the demolition of all the existing buildings on the site, and their replacement with a fourteen storey office block. Finally, the committee approved plans for the replacement of a boundary wall and the installation of a bike and bin store in the front garden of 31 Lockhurst Street.