Editing King's Cross, London (section)

===Post-war decline===
After World War II the area declined from being a poor but busy industrial and distribution services district to a partially abandoned post-industrial district. By the 1980s it was notorious for [[prostitution]] and [[Substance abuse|drug abuse]].<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/12/regeneration-kings-cross-can-other-developers-repeat-trick|title=All hail the new King's Cross – but can other developers repeat the trick?|first=Rowan|last=Moore|newspaper=The Observer |date=12 October 2014|via=The Guardian}}</ref> This reputation impeded attempts to revive the area, utilising the large amount of land available following the decline of the railway goods yard to the north of the station and the many other vacant premises in the area.

Relatively cheap rents and a central London location made the area attractive to artists and designers and both [[Antony Gormley]] and [[Thomas Heatherwick]] established studios in the area. In the late 1980s, a group of musicians, mechanics, and squatters from Hammersmith called [[Mutoid Waste Company]] moved into Battlebridge Road warehouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mutatebritain.com/history/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220418093452/http://www.mutatebritain.com/history/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=18 April 2022 |title=History « Mutate Britain |website=Mutatebritain.com |date=4 August 2010 |access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> They built huge industrial sculptures out of scrap metal and held raves. In 1989 they were evicted by police.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mutoid Must Remain |url=http://meetingbenches.com/bench/2014/02/mutoid-must-remain/ |title=Mutoid Must Remain |publisher=Meeting Benches |date=21 February 2014 |access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref>
In 1992, the Community Creation Trust took over the disused coach repair depot and built it into the largest Ecology Centre in Europe with ecohousing for homeless youngsters, The Last Platform Cafe, London Ecology Centre (after its demise in Covent Garden), offices and workshops, gardens and ponds.  It was destroyed to make a car park for the Channel Tunnel Regeneration. Bagley's Warehouse was a nightclub venue in the 1990s warehouse rave scene on the site of Goods Yard behind King's Cross stations, now part of the redevelopment area known as the Coal Drops adjacent to Granary Square.