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Crunch meeting ends in confusion
CAMDEN Council’s ability to handle complicated planning applications relating to the King’s Cross development was thrown into question again on Thursday night after the latest round of discussions ended unresolved and in confusion.
In farcical scenes, which will have done little to engender trust among either developers or objectors, a panel of councillors was asked to reach a decision on four major applications in just over an hour.
With hardly enough time to introduce the agenda items, let alone discuss the merits of them, the meeting was scrapped and councillors were asked to find a new date at which to discuss the plans.
Councillors had already been asked to deliberate on housing developments in Gospel Oak and Finchley Road before even starting on the King’s Cross designs.
The delay comes at a time when Camden is eager to show it can deal with applications from Network Rail and main site developers Argent Limited.
They are some of the most complicated that have ever been submitted to the Town Hall and leading architects and developers have warned that the process is too big for a local authority to handle on its own. Argent Limited chief executive Roger Madelin sat in the chamber for the meeting but did not speak as his company’s for the development plans for were not fully discussed.
Scores of residents turned up at the meeting to argue against Network Rail’s plans to build a super-sized ‘Platform Y’ at the expense of entrances to the station in York Way.
Network Rail said their plans were meant to allow longer trains to arrive and depart from the station.
Network Rail, Argent and the objectors must now all come back to another meeting next month. |
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