{"id":643024,"date":"2023-04-29T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/oxford-street-ms-rebuild-ruling-delayed-by-three-months\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:05:37","slug":"oxford-street-ms-rebuild-ruling-delayed-by-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/oxford-street-ms-rebuild-ruling-delayed-by-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Street M&S rebuild ruling delayed by three months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A ruling on plans to rebuild the flagship Marks & Spencer (M&S) store on London’s Oxford Street has been delayed by at least three months.<\/p>\n

Housing and communities secretary Michael Gove previously said he would make a final decision on the called-in plans \u201con or before 3 May\u201d, but this week he stated that the verdict must now wait until 20 July at the earliest.<\/p>\n

A letter from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to Marks & Spencer, Westminster City Council and campaign group Save Britain\u2019s Heritage said: \u201cFurther time is required to consider this case, and it will not be possible to reach a decision on this application on or before the above date.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pilbrow & Partners-designed scheme \u2013 one of Construction News’ <\/em>10 projects to watch<\/a> this year \u2013 was approved in 2021 and later backed by London mayor Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n

No contractors have been appointed and there is no official indication of the cost of the job, although data intelligence provider Glenigan estimates that it will involve \u00a3106m of private funding.<\/p>\n

Last year, Westminster council approved the plans by M&S to demolish three buildings on 456-472 Oxford Street and replace them with a mixed-use, 10-storey steel-and-glass structure containing retail and office space (pictured).<\/p>\n

Gove ordered an inquiry last June following concerns over the amount of embodied carbon and asbestos that the existing buildings contain.<\/p>\n

M&S property director Sacha Berendji argued at the time that the building could not be modernised through refitting. He said M&S had looked \u201cvery closely\u201d at refurbishing the existing Edwardian structure but full redevelopment was the \u201conly viable way forward\u201d.<\/p>\n

Berendji added: \u201cFor a government purportedly focused on the levelling-up agenda, calling in this significant investment in one of our most iconic shopping locations will have a chilling effect for regeneration programmes across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Save Britain\u2019s Heritage has warned that knocking down the 1929-1932 structure and rebuilding it would create more carbon emissions than \u201cdriving to the sun\u201d<\/a>, equivalent to 40,000 tonnes of CO2.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A ruling on plans to rebuild the flagship Marks & Spencer (M&S) store on London’s Oxford Street has been delayed by at least three months. Housing and communities secretary Michael Gove previously said he would make a final decision on the called-in plans \u201con or before 3 May\u201d, but this week he stated that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30406,180],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-643024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oxford","8":"category-street"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}