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Milton Keynes City Council as a unitary authority provides the majority of local government services for Milton Keynes. To find out more about unitary authorities visit...
Since 1997 it has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council; it is independent of Buckinghamshire Council, the unitary authority which administers the rest of the county.
The existing unitary authority of Milton Keynes was not affected; from 1 April 2020, therefore, the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire has been composed of two unitary authority areas. [7] [8]
- History
- Local Government
- Economy
- Education
- Demographics
- Settlements
- Freedom of The City
The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole area of four former districts and part of a fifth, which were all abolished at the same time: 1. Bletchley Urban District 2. Newport Pagnell Urban District 3. Newport Pagnell Rural District 4. Winslow Rural District (part within the designated New Town ...
Arising from the local government elections of May 2024, the borough is governed by a Labour administration. The Liberal Democrat partyis the main opposition group. In the 2024 Labour gained 4 seats to become the majority party, having previously been part of a joint Labour-Lib-Demrun administration.
According to data from the Office for National Statistics for 2017, the borough was the highest performing NUTS3 region in the UK outside inner London (which takes the first five places), on the basis of gross value addedper head.
Further education in the borough is provided by Milton Keynes College. For higher education, the Open University's headquarters are in Milton Keynes – though, as this is a distance education institution, the only students resident on campus are approximately 200 full-time postgraduates. A campus of the University of Bedfordshire located in Central ...
Population
At the 2021 census, the population of the borough was 287,060. This was an increase of 15.3% from the 2011 census, when the population of the borough was 248,821.By 2050, the City Council projects that the borough's population will reach 410,000.
Education
At the 2021 census, of residents aged 16 and over, 15.8% had no qualifications, 10.9% had a level1 qualification, 14.2% had level2, 4.7% were in apprenticeship, 15.7% had level3, 35.8% had level4 and 2.9% had other qualifications.
Ethnicity
In the 2021 census, almost 71.8% of the population described their ethnic origin as white, 12.3% as Asian, 9.7% as black, 4% as mixed, and 2% as another ethnic group.
Milton Keynes urban area
The urban area accounts for about 20% of the borough by area and 90% by population. This is a partial list of the districts of the Milton Keynes urban area. The City of Milton Keynes is fully parished. These are the parishes, and the districts they contain, that are now elements of the Milton Keynes built-up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics.[b] Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Woburn Sands, Central Milton Keynes, Newport Pagnell, Wolverton and Stony Stratfordare towns. The civ...
Rest of the borough
The rural area accounts for about 80% of the borough by area and about 10% by population. Olney is a town. These are the extra-urban civil parishes: 1. Astwood and Hardmead 2. Bow Brickhill 3. Caldecote, Calverton, Castlethorpe, Chicheley, Clifton Reynes, Cold Brayfield 4. Emberton 5. Filgrave 6. Gayhurst 7. Hanslope, Haversham-cum-Little Linford 8. Lathbury, Lavendon, Little Brickhill, Long Street 9. Moulsoe 10. Newton Blossomville, North Crawley 11. Olney 12. Ravenstone 13. Sherington, Stok...
Neighbourhood Plans
As of December 2023[update], the borough has 28 designated Neighbourhood Areas, of which 22 have made/adopted Neighbourhood Development Plans approved by the City Council, spanning both urban and rural parishes.
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City(from 2022) or Freedom of the Borough (1982–2021).
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May 6, 2022 · A Labour-Lib Dem coalition is expected to remain in control at the unitary authority.
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Jan 25, 2007 · THE GOVERNMENT is preparing to consider not one but two bids for unitary authority status from Bedfordshire.
