IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (retail) doorstep’ 1: This is Money on M&S demolition… ‘a big win’

‘Marks & Spencer plan to knock down flagship Oxford Street store approved’ reports This is Money, describing it as ‘a big victory for chief executive Stuart Machin…’.

This is Money writes:

Marks & Spencer has won the battle to raze its flagship Oxford Street store.

… Angela Rayner has approved the proposal …

M&S will now knock down its 1929 art deco flagship… and build a larger retail and office block…

‘It is wilfully myopic not to see that the elegant M&S building could play a.. role in the story of Oxford Street…’ said Henrietta Billings, director Save Britain’s Heritage.

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