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08:36:43 on Sat, 1 Aug 2009, nospam_lonelytraveller_nospam
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On 31 July, 20:58, " Richard Hunt" wrote:
It's a bit (metaphorically) low-rent around there at the moment. One
of the cheapest Travelodges overlooks the station. And much of the
rest of the area is alleyways and the backs of Victorian terraces.

A little bit north of there, and a bit west too is the lovely shiny
King's Place development - seehttp://www.kingsplace.co.ukfor details.
Gallery, concert hall, bar and cafe overlooking the canal basin.

The former surface station would be a great spot to build housing (and
still allowing a narrower frontage for an emergency tube exit).

It's useful as a proper tube exit too.

"low- rent" from a building isn't something that landlords would be too
worried about if the result of doing nothing is "no rent at all".

"Low rent" is a metaphor. Other expressions are a bit more anglo saxon.

There's a wide sub surface walkway to just in front of kings cross
station from the overbridge at the former station, and its currently
disused.

Isn't that the tunnel which will be the main passageway from the
northern ticket hall to the Piccadilly and Victoria Line platforms.
See the sections near the "5" marks he

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/kx-com...with-lifts.jpg
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Roland Perry