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CAMPAIGNERS urged Hackney residents yesterday to help save the Centerprise Community and Arts Centre in Dalston.
The London bookshop and cultural centre which was founded in 1970 could be forced to close if it’s evicted from its council-owned building in Kingsland High Street.
An eviction hearing is scheduled to take place on 15 October and could bring about the end of the 41-year-old institution.
The disagreement between Centerprise and Hackney Council dates back to November 2011 when according to Centerprise CEO Emmanuel Amevor, the council raised the rent on the property to £37,000 a year.
Centerprise regards the rent increase as neither plausible nor expected, as it considers the premises to have been bought by Hackney Council for the sole use of Centerprise by a capital grant awarded to the arts organisation in 1984 under the Inner City Partnership Fund.
