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Article: Milton Keynes -- maturing new town or regional adolescent?
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- Town and Country Planning
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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The Milton Keynes sub-region has been promoted as a location for significant future growth, yet it sits uneasily near the boundaries of the new regional structures and institutions. If ever there were a challenge to make cross-boundary regional planning work, this is it; and the way forward could be the making of emerging regional planning structures, says John Best
Milton Keynes was born out of regional and national planning. As the final act in the post-war new towns programme, in 1967 the Ministry of Housing and Local Government plumped for a patch of Buckinghamshire countryside midway between London and Birmingham for the last and largest of the new towns. It ...