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
RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign
By Richard Waite, Anna Highfield and will hurst 20 July 2023 12,138 Views
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
By Simon Henley 14 July 2023 2,505 Views
As Michael Gove prepares to announce his verdict on the proposed demolition of M&S Marble Arch, let’s hope he has considered our memories and understanding of the place we know as Oxford Street, writes Simon Henley
By Merlin Fulcher 11 July 2023 729 Views
North Devon District Council is recruiting a consultant for a wayfinding upgrade of Barnstaple [Deadline: 1 August 2023]
By Richard Waite 12 June 2023 1,483 Views
Stallan-Brand has lodged a detailed planning application to overhaul two identical, mould and damp-riddled 1960s council housing blocks in Edinburgh
By Richard Waite 2 June 2023 1,730 Views
Studio Egret West has won approval to flatten a 1950s former tax office in Manchester and replace it with a 45-storey housing block and 19-storey offices
By AJ news desk 26 May 2023 2,506 Views
Retrofit and the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign will be discussed at the Ecocity World Summit, taking place at London’s Barbican next month
By Gino Spocchia 17 May 2023 6,818 Views
The City of London is looking to adopt a ‘retrofit first’ policy for its future City Plan, according to proposals debated last month
By will hurst and Anna Highfield 26 April 2023 2,876 Views
Michael Gove has postponed his much-anticipated decision on Pilbrow + Partners’ plans to demolish and rebuild Marks & Spencer Oxford Street until July
By Kit Heren 4 April 2023 1,676 Views
Curl La Tourelle Head Architecture has unveiled plans for a part-retrofit, part-new build housing scheme across a post-war council estate in the Welsh city of Newport
By will hurst 24 March 2023 5,088 Views
London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to investigate a claim that around 1,000 homes in the capital have been wrongly labelled ‘obsolete’ and earmarked for demolition