A planning application that would have meant the demolition of an historic Bletchley factory and the loss of current businesses occupying the site has been withdrawn.
A THIRD meeting will be held on Friday (March 22) to decide whether one councillor’s use of the phrase ‘silly woman’ towards another councillor is in breach of the borough’s code of conduct.
Food traders – including ice cream vans – are to be banned from trading within 250 metres of schools while students are there, even though it could harm their businesses.
Self-employed drivers’ claims of bullying, discrimination and unethical practices against private hire companies have been found to be ‘unsubstantiated’ by Milton Keynes Council.
A leading councillor believes a mistake had been made in a decision to end a contract to provide specific counselling services for ‘vulnerable gamblers’ in Milton Keynes.
Council tax bills are thudding on residents’ doormats across Milton Keynes this week – but some are receiving demands hundreds of pounds more than others, even in similarly rated bands.
Taxis are to be allowed to carry paid advertisements for the first time in Milton Keynes to help black cab drivers deal with a devastating downturn in business.
Angry residents argued in vain for Milton Keynes Council to pause on plans to consult on the development of more than 140 acres of open countryside to the south of the city.
Planning permission has been granted for a block of 328 apartments on a former garden centre site opposite the Xscape building and next to a Premier Inn, in Central Milton Keynes.
Late objections from a member of the public who wanted to save Milton Keynes’ iconic The Point from demolition did not prevent councillors from removing the last obstacles to its destruction.
People are being left on the verge of losing their homes because of errors in the way Milton Keynes Council deals with housing benefits, it has been claimed.
Milton Keynes College is looking seriously at a plan to close its three campuses in Bletchley, Woughton and Silbury Boulevard, and move lock, stock, and barrel to the city centre.
