University is high on our agenda
4th July 2007
MILTON Keynes Partnership Committee brings together Milton Keynes Council, English Partnerships, Local Strategic Partnership representatives from health, community and the business sectors and...
4th July 2007
MILTON Keynes Partnership Committee brings together Milton Keynes Council, English Partnerships, Local Strategic Partnership representatives from health, community and the business sectors and...
1st July 2007
I AM WRITING this column with about five minutes to go before it has to be sent to printers. The reason? Well about an hour ago I learned that Turley Associates, the planning consultants working with...
7th June 2007
The Chamber board was dismayed at the "unquestionably adverse consequences" on Luton’s economic prosperity should such a decision materialise. Their views have been echoed by...
1st June 2007
I AM aware that my column in Business MK has recently been a lot to do with trees, and saving them, and not a lot about business, the raison d’être of this organ. Not only that, but I...
2nd May 2007
Speaking at a lunch hosted by the Institute of Directors’ Milton Keynes branch, Dr Starkey said that expansion was a huge opportunity but there was too much concentration on narrow local issues...
1st May 2007
ISOBEL McCall is the current leader of Milton Keynes Council and, I’m certain, a woman of the very highest integrity who would never knowingly deceive. An e-mail she recently sent to a member...
1st May 2007
URBAN Eden - the movement I started almost accidentally to promote a sustainable extension of the original masterplan for Milton Keynes - has had its first success. We appear to have forced Milton...
1st May 2007
Planting and landscaping are required to feature in plans for all new developments, said a Milton Keynes Partnership spokesman. However, removal of trees was not unprecedented. Some had been removed...
23rd April 2007
Peter Housden, permanent secretary in the Communities and Local Government Department, is pictured with Milton Keynes Partnership chairman Sir Bob Reid (right), MKP chief operating officer Jane...
2nd April 2007
Owners Hermes Real Estate and Prudential have submitted the first batch of reserved matters applications to Milton Keynes Council. The mastervision aims to improve the retail offer and to improve...
26th March 2007
The first phase of the expansion is an upgrade of the hospital’s internal infrastructure including a new roadway, roundabouts and improvements to its existing helipad to provide better...
22nd March 2007
A survey for Invest Milton Keynes, the inward investment arm of Milton Keynes Partnership, has found that 97 per cent of firms were satisfied with the city as a base. Nine out of ten said it had been...
1st March 2007
Urban Eden has had its first meeting, attended by a far better-than-expected cross-section of concerned citizens, including many who’ve been involved in its development and foundation.One of...
1st February 2007
I HAVE been fairly absorbed of late with the way in which the original dream of Milton Keynes has been scrapped and how this is the last chance to save our Urban Eden. It seems many of you agree....
1st January 2007
OH MY GOD, what have I done? Last month I wrote, more out of sadness than anger, how Milton Keynes, a city designed from scratch to be an urban Eden and admired world-wide was being deliberately...