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Save Britain’s Heritage calls for urgent planning policy reforms after ‘short-sighted’ M&S decision

By 2024-12-06T12:22:00

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Save Britain’s Heritage are calling for urgent reform to national planning policy following Angela Rayner’s “short-sighted” decision to approve Marks & Spencer’s plans to redevelop its flagship Oxford Street store.

The campaign group which led the fight against the Pilbrow & Partners-designed proposals in a 2022 public inquiry said the high-profile case had revealed “gaping holes” in the UK’s national planning policy on embodied carbon emissions.

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