Council News

Milton Keynes Council is consulting the local community about it's proposals for service priorities and budgets for the coming year. The budget affects every resident of Milton Keynes.

If you would like to comment, please complete our questionnaire. The deadline is February 6, 2009.

Milton Keynes Council budget consultation

The Department of Communities and Local Government announced that Milton Keynes Council will receive £18.2m funding for growth over the next 2 years. This is £3.9m more than government has previously indicated they would give to the Council.

The money will to help fund roads, schools, community centres and green spaces to create complete communities as the city continues to grow.

Government puts its money where the growth is

Milton Keynes has launched its first ever Children in Care Council. The forum, known as 'Today's Children, Tomorrow's Future', will give children and young people in care the chance to talk directly with their 'corporate parents, Milton Keynes Council and its partners, about the issues that affect them.

Today's Children - Tomorrow's Future

Milton Keynes Council and environmental services provider Serco last week signed a new contract for waste management and street cleansing services to the residents of Milton Keynes.

The contract signing ceremony was attended by cabinet member for environmental services, Cllr Chris Williams, who was delighted to welcome the new deal.

Council and Serco sign waste and street cleaning deal

From the 26th April 2008 the Coachway will move from its current location at Junction 14 whilst a new coach passenger terminal is constructed.

Long distance coach services currently calling at Junction 14 will move to a temporary location between Montrose Street and Pilgrim Street, off Silbury Boulevard in Campbell Park, where facilities will include a waiting room, café, ticket office, toilets, a shop with taxi booking facilities and approximately 60 adjacent parking spaces. The site will be well lit, have CCTV and 24 hour on-site security.

more information on the coachway

Here's your chance to win a great prize in our Bumper Christmas and New Year Quiz. Use our online databases - Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, News UK and the Times Digital Archive - to answer our 50 quiz questions and win a Sony DSC-5730 digital camera!

Bumper Christmas and New Year Quiz

MKC children's services chiefs have expressed disappointment at the latest performance assessment from Ofsted. The latest rating - which contributes to the council's vital overall Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA) has fallen from 2 stars (adequate) to 1 star (inadequate).

Disappointment over Latest Children's Services Assessment