Jamie Oliver to open pub, restaurant and creative centre in King’s Cross: A row of early Victorian offices at King’s Cross left derelict for more than 30 years is to be converted into a new Jamie Oliver dining complex, The London Evening Standard has reported. The 17,500 sq ft scheme for the Fish & Coal buildings and Wharf Road Arches on the banks of the Regent’s Canal was given planning permission by Camden council last night. The chef will open a pub and restaurant in 2016 and will also move his company’s “creative centre” offices and test kitchens into the buildings. The Fish & Coal offices were built in the early 1850s to accommodate the army of clerical staff needed to handle the paperwork generated by the coal traffic and later fish freight coming into King’s Cross from Scotland and the North Sea ports. They had fallen into disuse by the 1980s and were gutted by fire in 1983. An application to have the unlisted brick buildings demolished in 1985 was overturned after a public campaign to save them.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:57:03 +0000
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