The Kings Cross Community Development Project (CDP) aims to bring strategic focus to community development in Kings Cross. The CDP is currently implementing the major part of King Cross Partnership’s Community Development Strategy. The objective is to ensure that local communities contribute to, and benefit from, the regeneration of Kings Cross by supporting them in building their capacity to deliver a range of quality services and by enabling them to inform and participate in the changes that are taking place.

The CDP is funded the Kings Cross Partnership. The aim of the Partnership is to coordinate effort and provide the strategic framework for the seven-year £37.5 regeneration programme in Kings Cross under the Government’s Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) initiative. The Partnership brings together a broad range of private sector interests, the local community and the public sector including the two local authorities for the area.

The Partnership’s vision focuses on the transformation of Kings Cross into a vibrant and distinctive new quarter for London – an important and positive part of a successful world city. The intention is to work towards making a fundamental and long lasting change to the area, to implement a comprehensive and coherent programme of interlinked physical, economic and social initiatives. This effort will complement the impact of some £2 billion investment in the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link which is now expected to be completed by 2007/8.