NEWS: MK Citizen December 19, 2019
Multi-million pound plan to dramatically change a Milton Keynes town centre is to be launched
MK Citizen reports, “A top councillor has given the nod to a dramatic multi-million-pound blueprint to transform central Bletchley over the next decade.
“Cllr Martin Gowans (Lab, Bletchley East), MK Council’s planning and transport chief, agreed to publish the [Central Bletchley Prospectus] CBP on January 3 at a delegated decision meeting on Monday (December 16).
It goes on to report that the CBP “envisages accepting up to 250 homes per hectare, new railway station entrances, pedestrianising part of Saxon Street, developing derelict land and creating a link from Queensway to Buckingham Road.
“The CBP does not count as an official planning document – it is seen as promoting the town’s potential. However, the council is planning to produce an official Supplementary Planning Document, early next year.
“They are comparing the what the town could look like to parts of central Oxford and Birmingham, and even to Utrecht and Delft in the Netherlands. There would be more public transport links, and support for cycling and walking.
“Underlying it all is a belief that the East-West Rail project – linking Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes – will give Bletchley the chance to become a nationally significant transport interchange.
“This and the prospect of a new road, the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, passing nearby will, council officers believe, make Bletchley very attractive to private sector investment.”
NEG would like to know how the public in the area can get involved. Will there be consultation with the community? With Highways England identifying issues of “community severance” South of Milton Keynes, and the corridor (within which the Ox-Cam Expressway will run) being very narrow at this point, it is critical that the public have early sight and input into these plans.
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