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King's Cross flats get go-ahead soon plan
Ruth Bloomfield16 Apr 2009
PLANS for the first phase of the huge King's Cross regeneration scheme are due to be approved this month.
An application has been lodged for a 14-storey block on the site, including more than 100 flats, within a 29,000-square metre tiered development. The scheme includes shops and cafés, a sports centre, large car park and energy centre to power much of the site. It will be considered by Camden council on 24 April.
The project includes private and communal roof garden for residents. A line of 24 wind turbines on the roof will help provide power.
About half of the flats will be sold on the private market. The rest are described as "affordable" and will be aimed at key workers and people on low incomes. They range from studio flats to a five-bedroom apartment, many overlooking Regent's Canal. The project will take up to 15 years to complete. If today's application is accepted it is expected a bid for another 250 homes will follow.
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Kimberly, London - I think i love you. Well put.
- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, 16/04/2009 15:36
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I do hope that the people living in the flats fully understand the noise from wind turbines?? No sleep at night as the harmonics are very bad on the hearing from these turbines.
Not for me in these flats
- Chris O'Brien, London, 16/04/2009 14:57
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As someone who has actually lived in Kings Cross for more than 1/4 of a century, I welcome the provision of homes for those on low income and key works such as hard working and underpaid nurses. After the Fred Goodwin pension fiasco the idea that wealth is an indicator of either morality or productivity is laughable!
- Harry, Kings Cross, Kings Cross, 16/04/2009 14:53
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14 storeys for people on low incomes? When will Boris stop this madness? We need beautiful large houses for people who work hard, not dingy council estates for lazy people who think they deserve everything.
- Kimberley, London, 16/04/2009 13:16
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never mind housing: what about infrastructure? schools? medical centres? policing? it's all very well building homes, but we need everything else that supports a community.
- Bandora Etrog, london, 16/04/2009 13:00
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