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  • Totally backward way to view buildings . Maybe (possibly) not even the councils fault. Hackney sold off so many places to cover holes in budgets. I lived in broadway market in middle of 2000’s and they sold off so many shops and buildings round there at the time, they’d obviously never own again.

  • Totally backward way to view buildings . Maybe (possibly) not even the councils fault. Hackney sold off so many places to cover holes in budgets. I lived in broadway market in middle of 2000’s and they sold off so many shops and buildings round there at the time, they’d obviously never own again.

    It was a deeply frustrating time, with the sell-offs imposed on Hackney by the then Government (when the sales didn't raise all that much and they could easily have extended the bailout--completely corrupt), and of course you know what happened on Broadway Market. It was the start of the damaging acceleration of the housing 'boom'.

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