What have you got against industrial estates? They enable small businesses to thrive, with relatively cheap overheads, and provide employment. You CAN regenerate an area and have new developments sitting alongside light industry, they are not mutually exclusive. As I understand it the industrial zone adjacent to the ground (where the fire was), the cements works - with riverside access - and the gasworks area are all part of the plan. Building around St. Mary’s is nowhere near as complex - or remotely as expensive - as the Kings Cross project. That’s a bit of a daft comparison.