King's Cross regeneration steams ahead

Camden Council has finally given the green light to the largest development of a single central London site in the past 160 years. Developer Argent’s £2bn regeneration of the 27ha King’s Cross Central site will include nearly 2,000 homes, plus community, sports and education facilities.

Argent is working closely with Edmund Nuttall on the civils side of the scheme and with Carillion, Kier and HBG on the building side. The development is likely to go ahead in three phases, kicking off with the transformation of the Granary building into a new campus for the University of the Arts.

[Contract Journal, 29 November 2006, p 3]