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Milton Keynes City Council is making its popular laundry service available to more residents, so more local people with health or mobility needs can get affordable, convenient support with their laundry.

Local organisations looking to lower energy costs, reduce carbon emissions and make their buildings more sustainable can now apply for grants of up to £30,000 through Milton Keynes City Council's Carbon Offset Fund.

Above: Children and young people enjoyed a wide range of free activities and healthy food at locations across the city this summer

Milton Keynes City Council is set to appoint contractors to demolish the Brunel Centre and former Wilko building, marking a major step in Bletchley's renewal and unlocking one of the town centre's most significant regeneration opportunities. 

Milton Keynes City Council has approved plans to strengthen its garage portfolio, invest in retained sites, cut long-term costs, generate funds from selected sales, and transform surplus land into housing, parking, EV charging and other beneficial uses for residents.

The Leader of Milton Keynes City Council has responded to the Government's call for councils to confirm their preferred approach to devolution by reaffirming support for a new Strategic Mayoral Authority covering Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK).

60 years ago, a group of starry-eyed idealists looked down upon the Buckinghamshire countryside from the skies and imagined a city. These were not your average stuffy and suited urban planners brandishing blueprints and briefcases; they were radicals, visionaries, ‘hippies in helicopters’ with a blank slate to start from and a remit to ‘make no small plans’. The city they imagined was experimental, mould-breaking, controversial and unapologetically optimistic. It fused the practical and the poetic, the ancient and the modern – a place where mirrored modernism and pagan-inflected mysticism coul

Above: Milton Keynes City Council Leader, Cllr Jane Carr with children enjoying a free activity session run by MK Dons in partnership with the city council at Germander Park School

Above (centre) Mayor of MK, Cllr Paul Trendall with Cllr Donna Fuller and city council staff in the new community larder at Pebbles Family Centre

Pictured: Poet Maureen Onwunali at Reggae Land Festival