In November 2021 Westminster council granted planning for the redevelopment of two major department stores on London’s Oxford Street. The plans for the first, Marks & Spencer, involved demolishing three interlinked buildings and replacing them with one low mega mixed-use, low-energy scheme.

Plans for the second, the former House of Fraser half a mile to the east, were also for a mixed-use scheme with the difference being that most of the building’s existing structure and facade would be retained.