Accessibility
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. To help us give you and your delegates the best possible experience please inform your event manager of any access requirements.
Kings Place is located 300 metres from King’s Cross Station, one of the most connected locations in London.
Public Transport
The Transport for London Journey Planner provides live travel updates and options on how to reach Kings Place quickly and accurately. You may also call London Travel Information on 0343 222 1234.
Tube
The nearest tube station is King’s Cross St. Pancras, on the Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Piccadilly, Northern and Victoria lines. The station has step-free access from the platform to the street level. From the tube station the quickest way to Kings Place is via King’s Boulevard. You may also walk up York Way.
Train
King’s Cross St. Pancras and Euston are the nearest mainline railway stations. Eurostar travellers arrive at St Pancras International.
Bus
The nearest bus route to York Way/Kings Place is the 390. Other services running to nearby King’s Cross St. Pancras are bus routes 10, 17, 30, 45, 46, 59, 63, 73, 91, 205, 214, 259 and 476.
Car
Kings Place has no dedicated public parking. Limited parking is available to visitors in the surrounding streets. Kings Place is easily accessible by car and is clearly signposted in the immediate area. The building is just outside of the Congestion Charge Zone. If you are using sat nav our postcode is N1 9AG.
The nearest public car park is an NCP at Judd Street, London WC1H 9QR. Alternatively there is also Handyside Carpark at 3 Canal Reach, London N1C 4BA.
Blue badge holders, or the driver of a passenger holding a valid badge, can park on Crinan Street, adjacent to Kings Place, in any of the Residents Only or Pay & Display bays for an unlimited time. Crinan Street also has one single bay with a yellow line, where Blue badge holders can park for up to three hours.
Taxis
Visitors can pick up taxis either on York Way and the streets immediately surrounding Kings Place or at the taxi ranks at King’s Cross and St Pancras Stations.
The venue
Hall One
Hall One is the largest of our venues and seats 400 people. The stalls floor of Hall One is situated on the Concert level (level -2, basement level) and the balcony floor is situated on the Gallery level (level -1, basement level). These floors can be reached via the main lift in the ground floor foyer.
From the Concert level there is flat access to the two wheelchair user spaces at the back of the stalls, via the stalls east or stalls west doors. There is sloped access to the two wheelchair user spaces at the front of the stalls. If you wish to avoid the slope to the wheelchair spaces at the front of the stalls, please ask a member of staff to assist you in reaching the access lift. There are no steps to any seats in the stalls.
On the balcony there are 7 steps from the outer balcony door to the inner balcony door, and a platform lift to the inner door for wheelchair users or audience members with limited mobility. The balcony wheelchair user space is reached through the Balcony north inner door, and there is flat access to the wheelchair user space.
Hall Two and the St Pancras
Both Hall Two and the St Pancras have level access from the Concert level foyer. Flexible seating means that wheelchair users can be easily accommodated.
Facilities for visually impaired delegates
Please inform your event manager of any delegates with visual impairments so that we can share these details with the relevant teams. Seating will be allocated towards the front of the events space.
Assisted Hearing Facilities
An infrared induction loop system is available in both Hall One and Hall Two. Two types of hearing enhancement are available – headsets for audience members who don’t use a hearing aid, or neck loops for use when hearing aids are switched to the ‘T’ position. Headsets can be prebooked in advance. Please mention any requirements when discussing your event with your event manager.
Assistance Dogs
Visitors are welcome to bring assistance dogs into the venue or they can be left with a designated member of staff who will provide fresh drinking water and a comfortable place to reside. Please inform your event manager if the dog is to remain with the delegate in the auditorium during the performance so we can advise the best seating location. We also welcome participating in assistance dog training.
Lifts
The 8 person Front of House lift (1050mm wide x 1350mm deep) has automatic doors, tactile buttons, and voice announcements. The lift serves the ground floor (0), gallery level (-1) and concert level (-2). There are two larger lifts for larger wheelchairs and mobility vehicles. Our lifts are currently limited to 4 people and reserved for those with accessibility requirements.
Accessible toilets
Accessible toilets are located on the ground floor (at the top of the stairs to gallery level), balcony level (at the bottom of the stairs from the foyer to gallery level) and concert level (between the concert bar and cloakroom). Delegates with radar keys have access to a private locked toilet located on the concert level (between the concert bar and cloakroom).
Using our website
The HTML markup is based on the “Bootstrap” framework and best practices in accessibility are adhered to according to Bootstrap’s documentation, which follows WCAG 2.1 guidelines. This includes use of ARIA attributes, logical structural markup and visually hidden interactive controls.
More information is available at https://getbootstrap.com/docs/
HTML is constructed with semantics in mind and is tested with Google Chrome’s “Lighthouse” tool during development. Tests include:
- Screen reading technology is supported through the use of “skip links”, accessible names on visible links and buttons and “alt” attributes on images.
- Background and foreground colours have a sufficient contrast ratio
- Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order
- Focusable elements have a unique `id` to ensure that they’re visible to assistive technologies
- The <html> element has a valid value for its “lang” attribute
- Form elements have associated labels
- Browser zooming is enabled on all devices
