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John Lewis said on Friday that it has appointed Martin Gafsen – currently interim corporate finance director at Royal Mail – as its new property and facilities director. He will be charged with the strategy and management of the partnership’s property portfolio. Gafsen will join the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) …

Griff Rhys Jones, left, with members of the Save Museum Street campaign group outside under-threat Selkirk House in Bloomsbury A DEMOLITION project to flatten a 1960s tower block in Bloomsbury should be a test case as to whether councils are applying their own net-zero policies, campaigners said this week. Broadcaster …

Robbie Williams could be headed for another row over plans to tear down two healthy trees. The former Take That superstar, 49, is seeking planning permission to fell two healthy trees, a eucalyptus and a leylandii, at the back of his £17.5million mansion in West London. But Robbie’s plans may …

How the attraction by the canal could look HIS art has come to symbolise London – and Camden Town in particular. But illustrator David Gentleman – whose work has included murals at tube stations and Royal Mail stamps – is less than impressed with a new vision for his home …

Work is progressing on a controversial five-storey block of flats in the Morningside area of Edinburgh. The apartments, on Falcon Road West, will comprise of two and three bedrooms, each with a south-facing balcony. The site formerly housed a Aitken and Niven warehouse and is located next to a Royal …

A Teesside electrician who transformed a dilapidated barn without a roof into a luxury five-bedroom home has put his home up for sale for the first time. The Barn, at Moorsholm, was practically falling down and had been on the market two years when Michael Connor bought it. With “some …

“It never felt like home, not once. I regret the day I came to this place. It’s been really, really difficult,” Marta Ramos sighed. That’s how she and several other Londoners have been left feeling after years of living in Britannia Point in Colliers Wood, South West London. The apartment …

Two developments near Reading station are set to change the face of the town forever, but one campaign group say the blueprints are overbearing and say “people probably won’t get sunshine”. A plot of land on Vastern Road and an area of Caversham Road are set to be turned into …

A magnificent mansion that occupies one of the finest plots on the millionaires’ playground of Sandbanks has gone on the market for £8.5million. The luxury house is one of just 14 properties located on the ‘elite’ stretch of Britain’s most priciest coastline. The row of harbourfront homes are worth well …

One of the sad things about London’s great history and heritage is that it sometimes gets destroyed when buildings are demolished and swanky new office blocks are built. Sometimes lovely old buildings get sold on. Such was the case with one of London’s little-known abandoned Tube stations. Brompton Road in …