Legal battle looms over redundant rail land

21 February 2007

A legal challenge has been launched to allow councillors to force developers to rethink the £2bn redevelopment of long- redundant former railway land at Kings Cross in London.
Solicitors for the local Kings Cross Think Again campaign applied for a judicial application to allow the new Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition in Camden to submit the proposals agreed by the previous Labour administration to fresh scrutiny.
The group hopes to save Victorian buildings due to be demolished as part of the plans to make way for two north-south road links to allow buses, cars, taxis, cyclists and pedestrians to access the site. The main ground is that councillors were wrongly advised at a development control meeting in November that they could not reconsider the consent provisionally given in March without inviting an appeal from developer Argent St George. Camden officers considered that the demolition of the Stanley North and Culross buildings was justified to create successful new thoroughfares into the site. The case is expected to be heard within the next three months.

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