UPDATE 10 SEPTEMBER 2018 An application to add two extra floors to a former CMK office has been refused by Milton Keynes Council’s development control committee. The building is currently in the process being converted from office to residential use, which can be done without planning permission due to recent government legislation. However, physical changes…
The new Victoria House office block has been completed and is now being fitted out ready for occupants Grant Thornton to move in. The building, which began construction in March 2016, has five storeys and is designed to provide top-quality office accomodation to improve CMK’s business offer, which suffers from the outdated interior design of…
The proposed seven-storey residential development on Silbury Boulevard, between North 11th and 12th Streets, was approved at a meeting of Milton Keynes Council’s planning committee last week. Known as 809/811 Silbury Boulevard, the development will provide 134 new apartments, several of which are intended to be low-cost units. An earlier proposal for the site was…
Hoardings went up at the end of March around one of CMK’s undeveloped plots on Avebury Boulevard, signalling the start of construction work on Victoria House. Tower cranes will soon follow once ground works are complete. The new five-storey office building will, when finished, form the new headquarters of Grant Thornton. The building will be…
Plans to rebuild Lloyds Court into a new retail destination were approved at a meeting of Milton Keynes Council’s planning committee last night. The building, which dates from 1976, will retain its current appearance in view of its status as the first building to be completed in CMK. The interior, however, will change completely, with…
Unsightly decked car parking could line the edges of CMK’s roads in plans put forward In Milton Keynes Council’s new CMK Transport & Parking Strategy. The document proposes to address CMK’s parking issues with the creation of several areas of two-story parking, similar to that found at local railway stations such as Bletchley. The decked…
Plans by retail giant Intu to build over the public space in Midsummer Place against the principles of the CMK Business Neighbourhood Plan have been called in by the Secretary of State. The proposals were green-lit by Milton Keynes Council in September despite their failure to comply with the adopted Neighbourhood Plan which 89,000 Milton…
A 100-berth marina will form part of a recently announced housing development at the south east corner of the Campbell Park grid square. The scheme, to be developed by house builder Crest Nicholson, will provide restaurant facilities, a convenience store, nursery and pub, on a vacant site that has been earmarked for development since the…
Public Inquiry for Intu Development? Despite objections from the Town Council, the Parks Trust and Historic England, the planning committee at MK Council has given Intu planning permission for their controversial expansion over Midsummer Boulevard. Unless the decision is overturned, nearly half the public open space in the concourse, which was set aside for community…
Residents on North Tenth Street had cause for celebration after plans to regenerate Lloyds Court, the first building to be built in CMK, were changed to address the controversial issue of noise. The plans initially featured a new service entrance on the residential road, which would have brought fully laden lorries down the quiet side…