Luxury flats instead of birdsong: can regeneration ever be the right thing? | Patrick Barkham

The priceless tranquillity of an inner-city green space – yards from St Pancras station – is threatened by a developer. And the developer is a Labour councilSeventy paces beyond the western side of St Pancras station you’ll find one of London’s overlooked small miracles: a scruffy park, a community garden, mature trees, ready-to-eat lettuce, a squirrel chomping a nut, a great tit singing, and local people enjoying these free pleasures. This priceless tranquillity is threa