Your Labour councillors for Dalston
 

Contact your Labour councillors on dalston@hackney-labour.org.uk

Dalston councillors hold advice surgeries at the following times:

Date: 1st Thursday each month Start: 6.30 pm End: 7.30 pm 
Venue: CLR James Library 
Address: 24-30 Dalston Lane, London E8 3AZ 

Date: 2nd Saturday each month Start: 12.00 noon End: 1.00pm 
Venue: Community Hall 
Address: Millard Close, Shellgrove Estate, London N16 8UU 

Date: 3rd Friday each month Start: 6.30 pm End: 7.30 pm 
Venue: CLR James Library 
Address: 24-30 Dalston Lane, London E8 3AZ

More about the team:

Cllr Michelle Gregory
Michelle has lived in Hackney for 27 years. She currently works as a Conference Organiser but most of her working life has been based in the arts in Hackney – including at Chats Palace in Homerton, the Lux Centre in Hoxton, Hackney Arts & Leisure Forum, Pitfield Street Youth Centre and Material Force Designs in Dalston – so she has worked with many local groups.
 
Michelle was involved in the set up of one of the largest tenant management organisations in Hackney, and has contributed towards Hackney’s regeneration as a community representative. She has been Chair of her Tenants and Residents Association, campaigning successfully against planning applications and lobbying for parking changes, and campaigned for a local post office to stay open. She is a member of the Unite trade union.

Michelle’s priorities if elected are housing, community engagement, and equalities. She wants to work hard for the people of Dalston and the wider Hackney Community and use her experience of work and different aspects of community involvement from living in Hackney to help to ensure that good quality services benefit all residents.

Cllr Angus Mulready-Jones
Angus Mulready-Jones has been a Labour Councillor for Dalston Ward since 2006.
 
Aged 26, he is married with a daughter and two step-children, all of whom were born at Homerton Hospital and attend Hackney primary schools. He has lived in Hackney for five years and is a regular user of local libraries and parks. He works for the Prison Advice and Care Trust delivering support service to the children and families of prisoners, and is also a trustee of Action for Prisoners’ Families, a national charity.
 
Angus is Chair of the Stoke Newington Neighbourhood Forum. His priorities for Dalston Ward are to work with partners and residents towards the successful redevelopment of Dalston town centre; to protect Ridley Road Market; and to divert people away from Anti-Social Behaviour into education, employment or training. His other interests on the Council are improving social services for children and young people and for vulnerable adults.
 
As one of the Council’s Play Champions he has achieved the redevelopment of children’s play areas on the Rhodes Estate and Evelyn Court Estate through Play Pathfinder funding.
 
Cllr Sophie Linden
Sophie Linden has been a Labour Councillor for Dalston Ward since 2006.
 
Sophie currently works full-time as Hackney Council’s Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Sustainability. She is proud of the work Hackney is doing to ensure that the council reduces the amount of energy it uses, and that it is getting advice and support to residents who want to save energy and save money. Previously she worked in the Home Office focusing on how to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and the harm that drugs cause.
Aged 40 and married to a headteacher, she has four children all of whom were born at Homerton Hospital. She has lived in Hackney since she was 16. She is a regular user of Hackney’s parks, libraries and Clissold Leisure Centre.  She has been a governor at a local primary school for more than ten years.
 
Sophie has worked with her fellow ward councillors to ensure that residents know their local councillors and know that they are there to help them.  She is pleased that thanks to councillors’ efforts Dalston has two playgrounds being refurbished and developed, extra patrols during the summer in Dalston town centre to deal with anti-social behaviour, street cleaning is improving, fly-tipping is being tackled, and the Ritson Road/ Stannard Road rat run has been closed.