Government design tsar tells Gove to reject ‘pointless’ plan to flatten Oxford Street M&S store

By Tom Lowe2022-04-26T06:00:00

Nicholas Boys Smith says Pilbrow & Partners’ proposals ‘will waste huge amounts of carbon’

The government’s housing design tsar has called on Michael Gove to reject Pilbrow & Partners’ plans to demolish and rebuild a Marks & Spencer store on Oxford Street and said the row over the scheme goes “right to the heart” of discussions about sustainability.

Nicholas Boys Smith said the case for pulling down the 1930s building was “gossamer thin at best” and called the proposals to build a 10-storey office and retail scheme in its place “deeply flawed”.

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