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London's King's Cross Coach Station to Close
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THE final closure of King's Cross Coach Station is to take place on October 31. For several years now this station, used by members of PSV Operators Ltd., has been existing on almost literally a month-to-month basis. The site is owned by Brixton Estate Ltd.. who have received planning permission from the GLC to build a multi-storey distribution centre with ground floor showrooms.
Apparently this development is regarded as more important than providing an adequate terminal for the many independent coach operators whose services terminate in central London. PSV Operators Ltd. have made an extensive search to find alternative satisfactory accommodation in this area, but it is understood that this has proved negative.
An application has been made to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners for kerh,side parking in Pentonville Road and Pancras Road. Not surprisingly, the police are opposing this application. The present coach station was built by Park Developments Ltd., who opened it on January 1. 1954. and ran the site until the following January when PSV Operators Ltd. too over, leasing the site from Park Developments.
The first part of this lease expired in January, 1962, hut was renewed. Later, however. Park Developments surrendered the lease to the then Brixton Development Co. Ltd., part of this agreement calling for the demolition of permanent buildings on the site.
PSV Operators Ltd. obtained a new short-term lease and erected temporary wooden huts to replace the permanent buildings. Successive applications by the property-owning company to develop the site were turned down by the appropriate planning authorities and frequent extensions to the lease were granted until eventually the present scheme was approved by the GLC.
St. Pancras and Finsbury Borough Councils were approached by the coach operators in an attempt to find an alternative site and estate agents in SWI. WI and NWI were circularized. Plans were prepared in association with National Car Parks Ltd., but were turned down by the LCC.
The help of the Metropolitan Traffic C10 Commissioners and the Ministry of Transport has been sought in an effort to find a permanent solution. It seems disgraceful, however, that a company responsible for the handling of 14.000
coach arrivals and departures a year, and whose station can be used by as many as 320 coaches on one holiday alone, should not be given proper assistance front the authorities.