‘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.