Argent

Roger Madelin CBE – chief executive officer

David Partridge – deputy chief executive officer

Robert Evans – director of planning

André Gibbs – senior project officer

Peter Freeman – non-executive director

Anne Hughes – King’s Cross Recruit, centre director (current)

Anna Strongman – senior projects director (current)

Camden

Bob West – head of King’s Cross team

Richard Kirby – principal planning case officer, King’s Cross team

David Reidy – London Borough of Camden sites team manager (current)

Frances Wheat – principal planner, development control (current)

Asha Paul – head of committee services

Cllr (Dame) Jane Roberts – leader of Camden council (to 2005)

Cllr Heather Johnson – chair of development control subcommittee (2005–06)

Cllr John Thane – executive member for environment

Cllr Theo Blackwell – executive member for regeneration

Cllr Jake Sumner – member, development control subcommittee

Cllr Sue Vincent – vice chair, development control subcommittee

Cllr Mike Greene – executive member for environment (2006–10)

Cllr Raj Chada – leader of Camden council (2005–06)

Janet Sutherland – principal housing officer

Alison Lowton – borough solicitor

London and Continental Railways

Stephen Jordan – managing director

David Joy –chief executive (current)

Roger Mann – director of property Hyperion/Exel

Consultants

Dr Demetri Porphyrios – architect and masterplanner, Porphyrios Associates

Bob Allies OBE – architect and masterplanner, Allies and Morrison

Graham Morrison OBE – architect and masterplanner, Allies and Morrison

Robert Gordon Clark – executive chairman, London Communications Agency

John McAslan CBE –partner, John McAslan + Partners

Robert Townshend –principal, Townshend Landscape Architects

Other participants

Paddy Pugh – principal officer, English Heritage

Michael Edwards – King’s Cross Railway Lands Group

Colin Wilson – senior planner, Greater London Authority

David Lunts – executive director, Homes and Community Agency

Michael Hurn CBE – senior civil servant, Department for Communities and Local Government

Steve Hitchins – leader, Islington council

Sir Stuart Lipton – chief executive officer, Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments

Camilla Ween – senior transport planner, Transport for London

Contributors to Chapter 2

Peter Rees – professor of Places & City Planning in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

Pat Hayes – director of environment and planning, London Borough of Ealing

Rosemarie Macqueen MBE – strategic director of built environment, City of Westminster (2007–14)

Sir Stuart Lipton – developer, Lipton Rogers Developments (previously Rosehaugh Stanhope and Chelsfield)

Alan Leibowitz – joint managing director, Dorrington Properties

Adrian Penfold OBE – head of planning, British Land

Cllr Daniel Moylan – Conservative councillor at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Lorraine Hart – director, Community Land Use

Sir Robin Wales – leader (1995–2002) and Mayor of London Borough of Newham since 2002

Dominic Ellison – chief executive officer, Hackney Co-operative Developments CIC

Particular thanks are due to Argent’s Roger Madelin for the huge amount of time he spent helping to piece the story together, and for his generosity and openness. Also to Robert Evans for his total recall of events. We are grateful to Argent for accepting the objectivity of this book and for the immense trust and openness it has shown over its contents.

We would also like to thank Demetri Porphyrios, Bob Allies and Graham Morrison for their insights. Bob Allies and Graham Morrison also provided generous support in helping us assemble and redraw images for the book. Thanks, too, to John Sturrock for his generosity in allowing us to use his photographs, and Alex Ford (Allies and Morrison) and Isaac Amin (Argent) for their considerable help with the images.

Our reviewers, through RIBA Publishing, Duncan Bowie (University of Westminster), Colin Haylock (Haylock Planning and Design) and Peter James Heath (Atkins Masterplanning) provided invaluable insights on an early draft of this book.