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M&S launches High Court appeal against Gove’s Oxford Street refusal
Marks and Spencer has launched a legal bid to overturn Michael Gove’s rejection of its Pilbrow and Partners-designed plan to demolish and redevelop its Oxford Street store
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Is the M&S Oxford St demolition refusal a climate crisis turning point?
Will Michael Gove’s decision to block the demolition of Marks and Spencer’s Oxford Street store set a hard-and-fast precedent in favour of retention or simply lead to more confusion? Will Hurst, Anna Highfield, Richard Waite and Gino Spocchia investigate
M&S Oxford St reaction: ‘Watershed’ decision challenges knock-down and rebuild norms
Reactions are pouring in to Michael Gove’s landmark decision to block Pilbrow + Partners’ plans to demolish and rebuild Marks and Spencer Oxford Street
BREAKING: Gove rejects M&S Oxford Street demolition
Michael Gove has rejected controversial plans by Pilbrow + Partners to demolish and redevelop Marks and Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store, overruling a planning inspector’s verdict
Tory chairman joins hundreds objecting to Pilbrow’s Chelsea M&S plans
Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands has joined hundreds of objectors urging a rethink of Pilbrow & Partners’ proposed office-led redevelopment of the Marks & Spencer site in Chelsea
‘Architects need a Hippocratic oath to stop them trashing the planet’
The profession needs to sign up to an Hippocratic oath to pledge to do no harm to the environment, architect Simon Sturgis has said at the SAVE Britain’s Heritage annual lecture
From Kristin Scott Thomas to Julia Barfield: Who is saying what about M&S Oxford Street
As the landmark planning inquiry into Pilbrow & Partners' contentious proposal draws to a close, Will Hurst presents a selection of statements made to inspector David Nicholson by high-profile individuals and organisations
M&S will quit Oxford Street if Pilbrow scheme is refused, inquiry told
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has vowed to abandon its flagship west Oxford Street superstore if its Pilbrow & Partners-designed redevelopment plans are rejected
Demolition in the dock: Why the M&S Oxford St public inquiry really matters
Plans by Marks & Spencer to demolish and rebuild its flagship Oxford Street store have sparked a public row over the role of embodied carbon in construction and the case for a retrofit-first approach. Now a planning inquiry is set to hear both sides of the argument. Will Hurst reports…
RetroFirst Stories: Pilbrow & Partners on re-using a Brutalist Boots in Kensington
The latest in an AJ series looking at architects who have saved buildings from the bulldozers or given them a new lease of life