Kings Cross Central - Main site Land between Euston Road, St Pancras Station, Midland Main Line, The New Channel Tunnel Rail Link, York Way and Kings Cross Station.

2004/2307/POutline Planning PermissionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 December 2006

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Outline application for a comprehensive, phased, mixed-use development of former railway lands within the King's Cross Opportunity Area, as set out in the Revised Development Specification. The development comprises business and employment uses within the B1 use class; residential uses (including student accommodation), serviced apartments and hotels; shopping, food and drink and financial and professional services within the A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5 use classes; the full range of community, health, education, cultural, assembly and leisure facilities, within the D1 and D2 use classes; night clubs; multi storey and other car parking; re-erection of the linked triplet of gas holder guide frames to enclose new residential and other development, on the site of the Western Goods Shed; re-erection of the guide frame for gas holder no 8, alongside the re-erected triplet, to enclose new play facilities and open space; relocation of an existing district gas governor; works of alteration to other existing buildings and structures, to facilitate their refurbishment for specified uses; new streets and other means of access and circulation; landscaping including open space; new bridge crossings and other works along the Regent's Canal; the re-profiling of site levels; and other supporting infrastructure works and facilities (R1).

Received: 27 May 2004
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: London Borough of Camden
Ward: St Pancras & Somers Town

ReceivedReceived27 May
ValidatedValidated10 Jun
Consult.Consultation27 May
TargetTarget Date2 Sep
DecidedDecided22 Dec

Decided in 925 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Kings Cross Central - Main site Land between Euston Road, St Pancras Station, Midland Main Line, The New Channel Tunnel Rail Link, York Way and Kings Cross Station.. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. The site is in the King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area. There have been 6 other applications at this address.

97% of outline applications at London Borough of Camden were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type: Outline Planning Permission
Development type: A2 Financial and Professional, B1a Business - Office, C1 Hotel, C3 Dwelling House, D1 Non-Residential Institution, D2 Assembly and Leisure, Sui Generis
Scale / size: Large

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 June 2004
Last date for comments: 27 May 2004
Target decision date: 2 September 2004
Committee meeting: 1 January 2007
Permission expires: 22 December 2011

Planning decision

Statutory period: 84 days

Additional information

Documents: 106

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Kings Cross St Pancras
Article 4 direction: Basements
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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