The popular high street brand has been given planning permission to open the new foodhall in the former Homebase unit at Fairacres Retail Park. New M&S foodhall signs at Fairacres Retail Park in Abingdon (Image: Andy Ffrench)Another added: "A clothes shop would have been much more useful. The former Homebase unit at Fairacres Retail Park (Image: Andy Ffrench)The M&S application attracted opposition from the owners of the town's Bury Street precinct, Sunny Day Gentian, which claimed if M&S moved in at the retail park, regeneration plans for The Charter area next to the precinct would be "compromised". Last year, M&S also submitted a planning application to create a new mini-roundabout at the junction of Fairacres Retail Park and Nuffield Way to improve traffic flow. New M&S foodhall signs (Image: Andy Ffrench)Mays Properties, which owns the retail park, has not yet commented on whether there will be any changes to traffic arrangements in advance of M&S opening.