The Latest Breaking News from Marble Arch

Oxford Street pedestrianisation: All the bus route changes

Bus routes will be diverted onto surrounding roads when London’s most famous shopping street closes to traffic later this month

Evening Standard · Oct 8

Temporary theatre to be built on former site of infamous Marble Arch Mound

500 seat ‘Marble Arts’ theatre set to open in April 2026 to provide new ‘fresh and exciting cultural space for Londoners’

Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2025

15 bus routes diverted or shortened as more details of Oxford Street pedestrianisation revealed

TfL sparks concern from residents as it aims to solve conundrum of how to remove hundreds of buses to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2025

Marks & Spencer's Oxford Street store demolition plan - timeline of four-year saga

The flagship M&S store has become a test case in the debate over whether to demolish or retrofit old buildings

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2024

Traffic-infested Edgware Road to get a pedestrian-friendly makeover

Landowners Portman Estate and Church Commissioners have teamed up with BID Marble Arch London

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2024

OPINION - The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street must take account of buses

The last time Oxford Street came anywhere close to being “pedestrianised” was in the utter depths of the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020. I recall running — okay, perhaps jogging — blissfully along the central white line through a desolate West End from Marble Arch to Centre Point as…

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2024

OPINION - John Darlington on London Monuments: the tangled history of Marble Arch

London possesses at least nine monuments celebrating the lives of two of the country’s military heroes: Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and Horatio Nelson, Vice Admiral, and fleet commander. Nelson, of course, has prime position on his column overlooking the square named after his famous victory in 1805, while…

Evening Standard · May 16, 2024

Oxford Street 2.0: How £1bn investment will transform candy store blight back into premier shopping destination

Last year one retail boss branded Oxford Street a ‘national embarrassment’ because of the large number of empty premises

Evening Standard · May 13, 2024

This M&S Marble Arch saga is now an unholy farce

City Comment: Oxford Street and the broader West End need clarity — and soon

Evening Standard · May 9, 2024

Oxford Street food market given green light in war on American candy stores

More than a dozen restaurants will set up in the former Evans’ store near Marble Arch

Evening Standard · Apr 18, 2024