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Author Archives: William Perrin
300 mph Maglev to connect HS2 and HS1
Kings Cross transport infrastructure is set to receive a further boost with announcement of plans later today of a new ultra high speed link connecting High Speed 2 from the North and High Speed 1 to France. The Kazakhstan KX Investment … Continue reading
Kings Cross suffers from Angel Islington’s ‘Not In My Back Canal’ problem
A couple of readers and now the council have got in touch to point out the issues caused by canal boats moored in the Kings Cross basin. It turns out that council regulation of smoke and noise from issues caused … Continue reading
Are these barges polluting homes alongside Regents Canal?
British Waterways has been asked to examine reports from local residents that these two barges are polluting canalside homes with fumes from their generators. There’s a very diverse community who lives alongside the canal in Kings Cross – from expensive … Continue reading
‘Very High’ air pollution forecast by Met Office
Kings Cross has relatively bad air: it’s a huge transport hub with very high levels of car, taxi, bus, lorry and diesel train movements. I lived in the gyratory for a while and the pollution was ghastly. But it … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Gyrations KX Campaign, Community Health and Welfare, New
Tagged pollution, smog
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Kings Cross Square – are we there yet?
Kings Cross Square is staggering towards the finish line as more hoardings come down. But there still seems to be a way to go. Here’s a panorama of the square so far to try to give an impression of what … Continue reading
Grays (Inn Road) Anatomy – post your pictures on Kings Cross Gallery
Gray’s Inn Road is a fascinating place with hugely diverse range of architecture, people and land use. And it is adamantly un-gentrified, even occasionally a bit shabby. I took a lovely stroll along the road in the sun last week … Continue reading
What’s the value of a community getting its act together on arson? About £200,000 perhaps?
Kings Cross has improved a lot over the last ten to fifteen years – particularly anti-social behaviour. A new set of data has prompted me to have go at estimating how much one aspect of that improvement is ‘worth’, in … Continue reading
Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc, Bingfield Park
Tagged arson, gifford, outram, rufford, unit cost database
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Waitrose and new events space in old potato store
Plans for the old potato depot by York Way are up for approval – I have lost track of the complexities of the planning process for some of these buildings – can any local planning experts let us know in … Continue reading
Kings Cross Environment 