Following the floods last Christmas, Liberal Democrats on MK Council have been working with residents to understand what can be done to prevent future flooding, including what caused the local flooding over Christmas 2020. Two Groups were set up, one to find out about preventing flooding, the other to help with emergency situations.
Milton Keynes Council is on track to transfer a number of leisure and community facilities to local communities and organisations in a decision made by a Cabinet member last night. [Tuesday 20th July 2021].
The freehold transfer of four facilities to parish councils, including Westcroft Meeting Place, will mean that local communities will have more control over their own leisure and community facilities, with long term revenue savings for Milton Keynes Council.
A cross-party motion confirming the Council's plans to formally bid for Milton Keynes to become a city will be heard at tonight's meeting of the Full Council.
Milton Keynes is still officially a town, but with Her Majesty the Queen granting formal city status to a number of towns in 2022 to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, Councillor Pete Marland, Leader of the Council, hopes to see that change:
The Labour/Liberal Democrat Progressive Alliance on Milton Keynes Council has spoken out after local MP Ben Everitt breaks his promise on the international aid target.
In the General Election of 2019, Conservative MPs including Ben Everitt stood for election on a manifesto promise to "proudly maintain our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on development".
The Labour/Liberal Democrat Progressive Alliance on Milton Keynes Council is asking when the police service in Milton Keynes will be sufficiently resourced.
Milton Keynes is the largest town in the eastern region by both size and population, however police stations have been closed to the public or had their operating hours curtailed, and policing numbers have failed to recover from the Conservative government's headcount cuts.
