The Kings Cross Railway Lands Group continues to battle for the community – the judicial review has moved onto a proper judicial footing.  This is the last chance to have another look at the Argent plans.  You can find out more at the KXRLG website here.  Diana Shelley has put out a press release on behalf of the group.  She reports:

"Members of King’s Cross Think Again campaign were delighted to hear that their application for judicial review had been recognised for its seriousness and urgency by the High Court.

In an order made last Friday, Mr Justice Collins gave directions for the hearing of the challenge to LB Camden’s decision to grant planning consent last November to the controversial King’s Cross development.

Because of the urgency, with developers Argent hoping to start demolishing heritage buildings within weeks, he ordered a ‘rolled up’ hearing of both the campaigners’ case for permission to have a judicial review and the actual judicial review hearing itself. The hearing is likely to be in April.

Leigh Day & Co, solicitors for the King’s Cross Railway Lands Group which is leading the campaign, argue that councillors were wrongly advised at the November meeting about their right to reconsider the provisional consent given by their predecessors in March 2006. A second key issue is the obligation planning officers have to return an application to councillors if there has been a material change in planning circumstances.

Mr Justice Collins stated in his order he considered ‘both grounds are likely to be considered arguable’.

As well as clearing the way for a judicial review, Mr Justice Collins ordered that buildings of historical interest which are threatened by the current plans should not be demolished in the meantime."