Marks & Spencer plan to knock down flagship Oxford Street store approved

Marks & Spencer has won the battle to raze its flagship Oxford Street store. We can now get on with the job of helping to rejuvenate the UK’s premier shopping street through a flagship M&S store and office space, which will support 2,000 jobs and act as a global standard-bearer for sustainability.’ Machin, who has partnered with actress Sienna Miller to launch new ranges, added: ‘We share the Government’s ambition to breathe the life back into our cities and towns, and are pleased to see they are serious about getting Britain building and growing. Dee Corsi, chief executive of the New West End Company, said the redevelopment ‘will help cement the West End’s status as a global destination for shoppers and office workers alike’. Style icon: M&S chief exec Stuart Machin with actress Sienna Miller whose collections for the High Street chain have been flying off the shelves ‘It is wilfully myopic not to see that the elegant M&S building could play a similar role in the story of Oxford Street, whose fortunes are already on the up,’ said Henrietta Billings, director Save Britain’s Heritage. He accused the minister of taking ‘an anti-business approach, choking off growth and denying Oxford Street hundreds of thousands of new quality jobs’.