Plans to bulldoze the Art Deco building will undergo further scrutiny.
Due to the size of the proposed development, the plans had to be cleared by the Greater London Authority, as well as by the local authority Westminster Council.
A report published into the potential carbon footprint of bulldozing the building, at 458 Oxford Street, warned that the environmental impact would be so great it would contravene theThe report's author Simon Sturgis called the plan "absolutely crazy", believing a better idea would be to refit and renovate the existing shop.
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