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itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing"><span itemprop="name">Fury as London Mayor backs M&S Oxford St demolition plan</span></h1> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="tie-date"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>1 April 2022</span> <span class="post_author"> <span class="">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/author/will-hurst" title="Posts by will hurst" class="author url fn" rel="author">will hurst</a></span></span> </p> <div class="clear"></div> <script> window.onload = function() { ;(function($) { $('.post-layout-gallery').slick({ lazyLoad: 'ondemand', slidesToShow: 1, slidesToScroll: 1, speed : 600, ease : 'Pow4.easeIn', prevArrow: "<img class='fullwidth-chevron slick-prev' src='/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/chevron-left.png'>", nextArrow: "<img class='fullwidth-chevron slick-next' src='/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/chevron-right.png'>", // arrows: false, // dots: false, // infinite: true, // speed: 300, // 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class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/03/22113047/RT_10_PilbrowOxfordStreet-1600x1044.jpg" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>2/7</b> Render of proposed M&S; store, 458 Oxford Street, London</h2></div> <div class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/23155240/pilbrow-3-778x1100.png" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>3/7</b> Pilbrow & Partners' plans for M&S;' Marble Arch store </h2></div> <div class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/23155038/pilbrow-8-778x1100.png" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>4/7</b> Pilbrow & Partners' plans for M&S;' Marble Arch store </h2></div> <div class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/23155333/pilbrow-1-778x1100.png" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>5/7</b> Pilbrow & Partners' plans for M&S;' Marble Arch store </h2></div> <div class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/23155058/pilbrow-7-777x1100.png" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>6/7</b> Pilbrow & Partners' plans for M&S;' Marble Arch store </h2></div> <div class="image-source-empty"><p>Source:</p></div> </div> <div class="gallery-item"> <img data-lazy="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://cdn.rt.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/12/12175425/mS-marble-arch-shutterstock_anna-moskvina-1600x1067.jpg" src="/web/20220403114457im_/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fury-as-london-mayor-backs-ms-oxford-st-demolition-plan"/> <div class="slide-caption"><h2><b>7/7</b> Existing M&S; building at Marble Arch</h2></div> <div class="image-source"><p>Source:&nbspShutterstock; Ana Moskvina</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="post_first_paragraph"><p>GLA climate adviser Simon Sturgis has said Sadiq Khan ‘isn’t serious about net zero’ after the London Mayor approved the highly controversial demolition of Marks & Spencer’s store on Oxford Street</p> </div> <div class="content-wrap"> <div class="content-inner-wrap full-width" id="wrapper_sleeve"> <div class="content container"> <article class="post-listing post-657204 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-climate-crisis tag-gla tag-marks-and-spencer tag-planning tag-retail tag-retrofirst tag-sadiq-khan tag-simon-sturgis editorial-climate-change editorial-homepage-news editorial-london editorial-news editorial-planning editorial-retail editorial-retrofirst editorial-retrofit"> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="entry"> <p>Acting on Khan’s behalf, deputy mayor for planning Jules Pipe said that he was ‘content to allow the local planning authority [Westminster City Council] authority to determine the case itself’ in a letter dated March 7.</p><div style="text-align: center; " class="archi-inread-slot-1-mobile" data-id="599815" id="archi-700817349"><div class="mobile-inread"><h5 class="ad_title">Advertisement</h5> <div class="article_ads inline_ads"> <div gano="3" gid="div-gpt-ad-inread-mobile" class=""></div> <script language="JavaScript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ show_ga = true; isDevice = (window.innerWidth < 974 ); isDuplicate = ($("div[gid='div-gpt-ad-inread-mobile']").length > 1); isMobileGA = false; if ( isDuplicate ) { // if same ad is added two times if ( isDevice ) { //if client is viewing ad in device if ( !isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for desktop, return false show_ga = false; } } else { //if client is viewing ad in desktop if ( isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for device, return false show_ga = false; } } } if (show_ga) { if ($("#div-gpt-ad-inread-mobile").length==0) { $( "div[gano='3']" ).attr("id", "div-gpt-ad-inread-mobile"); } 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This was despite warnings from Labour’s Geoff Barraclough – the one councillor who voted against the scheme – that the new build would cost 39,500 tonnes of up-front carbon, more than 20 times what the local authority is aiming to save on its entire building stock annually through retrofitting.</p> <p>Ahead of the Mayor’s decision, the GLA had several times been sent a<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://mcusercontent.com/9ea03bb11e3ccc82634488e2b/files/07cd2fe4-f3df-3cdf-ba83-5d119660f367/220120FINALSSM_S.pdf"> critical report</a> – authored by its own carbon adviser Simon Sturgis – which warned that Pilbrow’s 10-storey scheme was directly at odds with planning policy, including the GLA’s own stated policy to prioritise retrofit.</p><div class="archi-post-content" data-id="452673" id="archi-1500847319"><h5 class="ad_title">Advertisement</h5> <div class="article_ads" style="margin: 10px 0; text-align: center;"> <div gano="4" gid="ad-aj-strip-5" class=""></div> <script language="JavaScript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ show_ga = true; isDevice = (window.innerWidth < 974 ); isDuplicate = ($("div[gid='ad-aj-strip-5']").length > 1); isMobileGA = false; if ( isDuplicate ) { // if same ad is added two times if ( isDevice ) { //if client is viewing ad in device if ( !isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for desktop, return false show_ga = false; } } else { //if client is viewing ad in desktop if ( isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for device, return false show_ga = false; } } } if (show_ga) { if ($("#ad-aj-strip-5").length==0) { $( "div[gano='4']" ).attr("id", "ad-aj-strip-5"); } GA_googleFillSlot("ad-aj-strip-5"); } else { lbl_div = $("div[gano='4']").parent().prev(); if (lbl_div.text() == "Advertisement") { lbl_div.parent().hide(); } } }); </script> </div></div> <p>Nevertheless, the planning report accompanying the Mayor’s decision does not mention the Sturgis report and claims the GLA received only one objection, a separate representation lamenting the loss of ‘a beautiful Art Deco building’.</p> <p>The planning report also calls the whole-life carbon calculations carried out by Arup on behalf of M&S ‘acceptable’, despite this analysis being a key target of Sturgis’s criticism.</p><div style="text-align: center; " class="archi-inread-slot-1-desktop" data-id="599814" id="archi-1190923172"><div class="desktop-inread"><div class="article_ads inline_ads" style="text-align:center;margin-top:-20px !important;"> <div gano="5" gid="div-gpt-ad-inread-desktop" class=""></div> <script language="JavaScript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ show_ga = true; isDevice = (window.innerWidth < 974 ); isDuplicate = ($("div[gid='div-gpt-ad-inread-desktop']").length > 1); isMobileGA = false; if ( isDuplicate ) { // if same ad is added two times if ( isDevice ) { //if client is viewing ad in device if ( !isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for desktop, return false show_ga = false; } } else { //if client is viewing ad in desktop if ( isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for device, return false show_ga = false; } } } if (show_ga) { if ($("#div-gpt-ad-inread-desktop").length==0) { $( "div[gano='5']" ).attr("id", "div-gpt-ad-inread-desktop"); } GA_googleFillSlot("div-gpt-ad-inread-desktop"); } else { lbl_div = $("div[gano='5']").parent().prev(); if (lbl_div.text() == "Advertisement") { lbl_div.parent().hide(); } } }); </script> </div></div> <style>.article_ads.inline_ads iframe {margin: 0 auto} @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {.desktop-inread {display: none;}}</style></div> <p>This week, following extensive industry consultation, the GLA published its full guidance on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/lpg_-_wlca_guidance.pdf">whole-life carbon assessment</a>s and the circular economy. On Wednesday night (30 March), Khan also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4047621/mayor-london-urges-firms-grasp-massive-mover-advantage-net-zero-transition">attended a climate-focused business reception</a>, claiming companies leading the way in this area would benefit from ‘massive first-mover advantage’ in the emerging net-zero economy.</p> <p>But Simon Sturgis – the co-author of the GLA’s policy on whole-life carbon – accused it of failing to follow through on such policies and questioned Khan’s leadership.</p> <p>‘It seems the Mayor isn’t really serious about achieving the climate goals he’s set out or net zero by 2050,’ he said.</p><div class="archi-inread-slot-2" data-id="452681" id="archi-2087854232"><h5 class="ad_title">Advertisement</h5> <div class="article_ads" style="margin: 10px 0; text-align: center;"> <div gano="6" gid="ad-aj-strip-6" class=""></div> <script language="JavaScript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ show_ga = true; isDevice = (window.innerWidth < 974 ); isDuplicate = ($("div[gid='ad-aj-strip-6']").length > 1); isMobileGA = false; if ( isDuplicate ) { // if same ad is added two times if ( isDevice ) { //if client is viewing ad in device if ( !isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for desktop, return false show_ga = false; } } else { //if client is viewing ad in desktop if ( isMobileGA ) { // if current ad is for device, return false show_ga = false; } } } if (show_ga) { if ($("#ad-aj-strip-6").length==0) { $( "div[gano='6']" ).attr("id", "ad-aj-strip-6"); } GA_googleFillSlot("ad-aj-strip-6"); } else { lbl_div = $("div[gano='6']").parent().prev(); if (lbl_div.text() == "Advertisement") { lbl_div.parent().hide(); } } }); </script> </div></div> <p>‘Given the climate crisis and the need to change direction [on development and construction], many local authorities say they want to achieve net zero faster than central government. But they simply aren’t delivering on that. This is business as usual.’</p> <p>SAVE Britain’s Heritage, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.savebritainsheritage.com/campaigns/item/766/PRESS-RELEASE-New-report-blasts-bulldoze-and-rebuild-plan-for-MS-Oxford-Street-HQ">which commissioned the Sturgis report,</a> submitted it to the GLA on February 25 while it was also shared with the GLA press office by the AJ on February 21 ahead of a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusive-new-carbon-report-slams-pilbrows-oxford-st-demolition-plans">news story on it</a>.</p> <p>Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, said: ‘Simon Sturgis is the GLA’s own adviser on climate change. It’s extraordinary that his report highlighting climate crisis concerns about the demolition of the M&S store has been apparently overlooked, not even referenced, in this decision.</p> <p>‘We are writing to the mayor urging him to re-consider this decision in light of the findings of the Sturgis report.’</p> <p>The AJ understands SAVE is also planning to write to Communities Secretary Michael Gove, urging him to call in the project.</p> <p>London Assembly member and former Green Party leader Sian Berry said she hoped Gove would ask the mayor to reconsider and said the apparent ignoring of the Sturgis report had left his decision open to challenge.</p> <p>She added: ‘Other parts of the mayor’s team are actively working on policies to challenge exactly this type of decision.</p> <p>‘As the mayor is very proud of being the chair of the [climate-focused] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.c40.org/">C40 group</a>, it would be good to see him not only making policies on embodied carbon but actually implementing them when he has the chance.’</p> <p>A spokesperson for the mayor declined to comment on why the Sturgis report had not been taken into consideration.</p> <p>They said: ‘The Mayor has made tackling the climate emergency an urgent priority […] the mayor’s commitment is taken forward by the sustainable policies in the London Plan with a requirement that all new buildings are net zero carbon.</p> <p>‘In line with London Plan policy on Whole Life Carbon, the question of retention and refurbishment or demolition and new build was considered in the GLA’s assessment of this application.</p> <p>‘The advice of officers was that there were no sound planning reasons for the mayor to intervene in this case.</p> <p>‘Although refurbishment offered the maximum benefits in terms of embodied carbon, this would be countered by the poor energy efficiency of the buildings, and over time the refurbished buildings would have a larger total carbon footprint than a new build.’</p> <p></p><div id="attachment_647517" class=" wp-caption alignnone" style="max-width: 2570px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-647517" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457im_/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/emap-nibiru-prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/12/12175425/mS-marble-arch-shutterstock_anna-moskvina.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1707"><p class="wp-caption-text">Existing M&S building at Marble Arch</p> <p class="inline_image_source" style="max-width: 2570px;">Source:Shutterstock Ana Moskvina</p></div> </div> <span style="display:none"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/tag/climate-crisis" rel="tag">Climate crisis</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/tag/gla" rel="tag">GLA</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220403114457/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/tag/marks-and-spencer" rel="tag">marks and spencer</a> <a 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