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Islington Council is celebrating frontline housing staff who make a real difference to local residents’ lives with its Caretaker and Concierge of the Year awards.

Islington Council will build 750 much-needed new council homes - and will have invested an additional £155m by 2025, to make local housing estates better, safer and greener for local people.

Islington Council has provided Streets Kitchen, a grassroots group working to help the homeless community, with space for a new hub in Nags Head, as part of its ongoing efforts to challenge inequality in the borough.

Two Islington families have moved into newly-built council homes with gardens on Belfont Walk, Holloway, as part of Islington Council’s commitment to tackling the housing crisis.

Islington Council is proposing to buy the former Holloway Police Station site to create much-needed new council homes.

In response to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Islington Council has today pledged to help accommodate and support up to 15 Afghan households in the borough before the end of the year.

As part of its commitment to creating a fairer borough for everyone, Islington Council has joined a national campaign to protect local people from the negative impacts of cladding, and is calling for a reform of the EWS1 process.  

A rogue builder who quoted a pensioner £35,000 for work that was worth a fraction of that price has been ordered to repay his victim, following a successful prosecution by Islington Council.    

Islington Council is making private renting fairer and protecting renters’ rights by launching two new landlord licensing schemes, helping to secure a fairer deal for private renters in the borough by improving conditions.

Two landlords have been fined a total of £110,500 after being convicted of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, in a successful prosecution by Islington Council.       

The director of an Islington letting agency that tried to pass itself off as a membership club to dodge the law while leaving tenants in the lurch has been hit with a bill of more than £40,000 in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK.