Category Archives: Big developments

Google Eyes King’s Cross Central

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Stephan Schulte

Submitted by Andrew Long, apparently Google is considering a major move to King's Cross Central. Read the story from the Telegraph.

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Kings Cross office space round up

Posted on March 14, 2011 by William Perrin

Couple of bits of PR surfaced in the last few days on prospective tenants in the Kings Cross Central or railway lands site North of the station.  Always good to see international businesses talking about moving to Kings Cross. As … Continue reading →

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King’s Cross remains a blind spot

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

King's Cross Development Forum (KXDF) has called for King's Cross to be treated as a discrete area within LB Camden's Transport strategy. The infamous King's Cross gyratory system falls across two London Boroughs – Camden and Islington – with Transport for London … Continue reading →

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King’s Cross Central – a ghost town?

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

Sainsbury's HQ, a flagship development of the King's Cross Central project may well turn out to be empty office space on completion. Back in 2007 Sainsbury's signed up to an agreement with Argent that this building would be their new HQ … Continue reading →

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Kings Cross crazy lifts – the Londonist

Posted on January 20, 2011 by William Perrin

Matt at the Londonist is a long time friend of this website and former KX worker. I was delighted he gave me permission to re-run this astonishing diagram of the lifts at Kings Cross station.  I am often totally bewildered … Continue reading →

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Let’s bridge the tracks

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

The campaign for a crossing over the railway tracks at the immediate rear of King’s Cross Station, replacing the old Battlebridge Road, scored a major success on 14 December 2010 when the Mayor’s Planning and Housing Committee visited the site of both the station … Continue reading →

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King’s Cross Central Construction Impact Group

Posted on December 15, 2010 by William Perrin

The Construction Impact Group met on 6 December. A summary of the meeting is here, on the King's Cross Development Forum web site. It includes the current timescales for the works on Goods Way and York Way.

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GLA Members vist Kings Cross to talk open spaces and the bridge over the tracks

Posted on December 14, 2010 by William Perrin

The Mayors Planning and Housing Committee members visited Kings Cross today as part of their enquiry into public realm issues.  With local groups we had a good chat about the bridge over the tracks, the permeability of the Kings Cross … Continue reading →

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