The High Court has granted a protective costs order to limit to £10,000 the costs that campaigners would be liable to pay if they were to lose the judicial review against Argent’s £2bn King’s Cross Central regeneration scheme.
Last month, a legal challenge to the scheme by local campaign group King’s Cross Think Again, was fast-tracked for judicial review. The group is seeking to have the plans revised to include a 50% rather than 40% allocation of affordable housing.
Collins J, in an order given on 22 March, stated that the questions raised by the campaigners “may be, in my view, of general public importance”.
The campaigners are arguing that councillors were wrongly advised that they had no discretion to reconsider the provisional decision on affordable housing.
The hearing is scheduled for the end of May.
