Proposals for a £15m Council project to build a new primary school and community health hub in the new expansion area have taken a step further.
The MK East expansion area sits between the M1 and Newport Pagnell.
Outline planning permission was granted last year to build Milton Keynes' largest new housing and employment area since 2007, with 5,000 new homes to eventually be built alongside new facilities such as shops, play areas and a linear river valley park.
Next Tuesday, Milton Keynes Council will take a decision to appoint a Contractor and partners including project managers and surveyors, to help progress proposals through a pre-construction process, for a new school and community health hub.
This is the first big project on MK East to have reached this point.
The health hub will provide facilities such as space for a General Practice and other multi-purpose health and community spaces, it will sit on an adjacent site to the school.
Cllr Zoe Nolan, Cabinet Member for Children and Families at MK Council said: “We’re excited to have taken the first major step in this process. The new school will be the first planned primary to be built in the area and we expect it to become an all-through school, providing 630 pupil places and 39 nursery places to an exciting new community.
"This means no stressful transitions for children as they remain there for both primary and secondary education. With an all-through school, the parents get to build a really strong relationship with the school over that period.”
The £15m scheme is being wholly funded by the Council’s successful bid to the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF).
Additional HIF funding is being used to design and build the new highway infrastructure which will serve the development, including a new 32m wide bridge crossing of the M1.
Over the last seven years, 4,112 new school places have been created in Milton Keynes with five new schools and the expansion of 18 existing schools.
It comes as on 1st March, a record number of pupils received their first choice option for secondary school. Milton Keynes Council received 3,889 applications by the 31 October deadline, compared to 3,669 in 2021 and 94% of applications gained one of their top four preferred schools.
