FAQs — Marks and Spencer

As leaseholders of its Sycamore Road store, M&S has been looking for a site ahead of its 2028 lease expiry, to secure its long-term future in Amersham and deliver a bigger, better store for the local community.
The White Lion Road site will enable M&S to deliver a store four times the size, offering the full M&S Food range for residents.
M&S’ lease expires in 2028 and the plan would be to close the Sycamore Road store in line with the opening of White Lion Road, allowing our existing team of over 40 colleagues to transfer across and minimising customer disruption.
These plans represent a multi-million-pound investment by M&S to secure its long-term future in Amersham and support up to 100 jobs.

In response to feedback we’ve had from residents so far, we plan to transform the public footpath on the eastern side of the site, widening it to 3 metres alongside border planting, to create an attractive and accessible footpath for the community. We would also contribute to a pedestrian puffin crossing on White Lion Road and improve the security of the pedestrian footbridge over the railway line.
In response to feedback, we are looking at ways to make it easier and safer for vehicles to turn into and drive past the new store through turning lanes.
The site has been designed to complement its surroundings and we will preserve trees and hedgerows alongside the store’s boundary with White Lion Road, as well as across the site.

The new M&S Foodhall will be four times the size of the Sycamore Rd store, enabling M&S to provide its full 6,600 product range to the local community – meaning residents will have over 2,400 more products to choose from.
The current Simply Food store is much smaller, which means it can't offer the full M&S Food range. A new 20,000 sq ft Foodhall would bring together the full range of M&S Food products under one roof, from fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen food and store cupboard favourites, to everyday essentials and exciting new ranges such as Nutrient Dense, Only... Ingredients, Made Without, Collection and Plant Kitchen.
The larger store would bring many of the M&S’ signature foodhall design features that customers currently have to travel elsewhere to access. That includes an in-store bakery, dedicated Flower and Wine shops, a cheese and deli barge, and a hot chicken counter, creating a true one-stop destination for the weekly shop.
M&S is proud to work with more than 9,500 Select Farm partners across the UK, including over 60 here in Buckinghamshire. From 100% traceable British beef and RSPCA Assured milk to fresh, seasonal produce, the new Foodhall would bring the exceptional quality and trusted value M&S Food is known for to Amersham.

Yes. The new Foodhall has been designed to make shopping as easy and convenient as possible, with around 190 parking spaces, including accessible bays, parent and child spaces, electric vehicle charging points and secure cycle parking.
Yes. However you choose to travel, we're making it easier to get to the new Foodhall. Alongside ample parking, the plans include better walking routes, secure cycle parking, a new puffin crossing on White Lion Road and contributing to improvements to the railway footbridge. It's all part of creating a store that's easy to reach and enjoyable to visit.
During consultation, many people told us that crossing White Lion Road can be difficult, especially at busier times of day. We would help to deliver a new puffin crossing, making it easier and safer for people to reach the store while also helping to slow traffic along the road.

We want to deliver a bigger and better store for the local community. The new store would create over 50 new jobs, as well as providing opportunities for young people through our Marks & Start and Not Just Any Career schemes, and flexible seasonal roles.
The new Foodhall would be fully electric and include a range of features designed to reduce its environmental impact. These include roof-mounted solar panels, energy-efficient LED lighting throughout the store, EV charging spaces and convenient cycle parking. These measures form part of M&S’s wider Plan A strategy and its ambition to become a net zero business across its value chain by 2040.