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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

M&S ‘may leave Marble Arch flagship if bid to rebuild site is blocked’

M&S has planning consent to bulldoze its 92-year-old Art Deco flagship

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A senior Marks & Spencer boss has warned that the retailer may quit its flagship Marble Arch site altogether if a controversial planning application for a new store is blocked.

M&S Group store development director Sacha Berendji said the high-profile campaign to stop it demolishing the shop and building a new one puts its future presence at the western end of Oxford Street “unnecessarily in jeopardy”.

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