Councillor Sam Pallis

2025-26 Budget Setting, Council - Wednesday 26 February 2025 7.00 pm

This meeting was the last meeting of Hackney Council for the 2024/25 municipal year, and included a wide-ranging set of reports, a review of the proposed budget for 2025/26 and a number of motions submitted by the Green and Labour groups.

Cabinet - Monday 24 February 2025 6.00 pm

The Cabinet approved a 4.99% increase to Council Tax for 2025-26, with 2% ringfenced for adult social care, to help balance the budget alongside £10m from reserves, despite receiving £25m more than expected from the government. £880,000 was also approved to upgrade CCTV in the town centre, and a £10m grant from the London Estate Regeneration Fund to help regenerate the Marian Court and Kings Crescent estates was formally accepted.

Licensing Committee - Tuesday 11 February 2025 7.00 pm, NEW

This meeting of Hackney Council's Licensing Committee was scheduled to consider whether or not to introduce Cumulative Impact Assessments (CIAs) in Shoreditch and Dalston. The Committee was also scheduled to be updated on the activities associated with the Late Night Levy[^2] during the last quarter of the 2024/25 Financial Year.

Council - Setting of Council Tax and Local Business Rates 2025/26, Council - Wednesday 29 January 2025 7.00 pm

The agenda for this meeting is a mixture of local and national concerns, ranging from the appointment of new Councillors to positions on committees, to motions that are intended to bring national issues to the attention of the government.

Cabinet - Monday 27 January 2025 6.00 pm

This meeting included a deputation from a member of the Hackney New Traveller Site about the provision of new Traveller sites in the borough, updates on the council's capital programme, the adoption of a supplementary planning document for Dalston, updates on the council's budgets, as well as details of the Housing Revenue Account budget for 2025/26.