News on Hackney Naming Hub

This week we installed a temporary welcome sign in the park formerly known as Cassland Road Gardens in Hackney Wick. This is another important stage in our ongoing work to remove the names of enslavers from our public spaces and to replace them with names that better reflect Hackney's values of inclusivity, equality and justice.

Thank you for signing up for the Hackney Naming Hub Newsletter. Since we launched in December we have had over 70 locally significant names submitted to the hub. We are currently reviewing and researching these suggestions with our heritage and engagement teams to compile a long-list of alternative names for the gardens ready for consultation with local residents in the Spring.

Cassland Road Gardens is the first in a long list of Hackney streets, buildings and public spaces that are being reviewed during 2021, so there is still time to get involved and suggest names, and to help us to spread the word.

Click here for more information about Review, Rename, Reclaim.