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Kings Cross Central Great Northern Hotel, Pancras Road, Kings Cross, London

2004/2314/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 22 December 2006

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Demolition of the basement (3 offices) and ground floor extension (kitchen, toilets and office) to the Great Northern Hotel on the south-western facade ("Extension 1") and fire escape which crosses the extension; demolition of the basement (storage) and ground floor extension (ladies toilet) to the Great Northern Hotel on the northern facade ("Extension 2"); removal of the railings along the south-western and northern side of the Great Northern Hotel; covering of the lightwell around the south-western and northern side of the Great Northern Hotel; and the making good of the south-western and northern facades.

Received
27 May 2004
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Pancras & Somers Town
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated10 Jun
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 925 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Kings Cross Central Great Northern Hotel, Pancras Road, Kings Cross, London. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. The site is in the King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

97% of heritage 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
Listed Building Consent
Development type
C1 Hotel
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 June 2004
Last date for comments
10 June 2004
Committee meeting
18 January 2007
Permission expires
22 December 2011

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Camden

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