City Hall spends £380k on staff for Oxford Street transformation

City Hall spends £380k on staff for Oxford Street transformation

City Hall has filled over half of the vacancies associated with Sadiq Khan’s Oxford Street transformation programme, costing taxpayers £380,000 so far, a Freedom of Information request shows. Five of the nine positions approved by City Hall were filled by mid-February with the Head of Oxford Street Transformation being one of the first. The team will be responsible for carrying out the Mayor’s plan to redevelop and pedestrianise sections of the …

Retail Technology | Oxford Industries turns to robotics

Fashion brand owner Oxford Industries – which owns Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Johnny Was – has announced a new partnership to automate its new distribution centre

How will the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street benefit retail in the UK?

In the last few months, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced that the city will be pushing ahead with long-discussed plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street. Long regarded as the shopping hub of the capital, Oxford Street has suffered in recent years with a number of retailers closing their doors on the historic street citing rising rent costs and falling levels of footfall. So could pedestrianisation revitalise the street, what are the barriers to po…