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Central Milton Keynes
The Hub

Two hotels: 4* Jury’s Doyle (opened July 2006)and 3* Ramada Encore (opened Aug 2006).
483 high quality residential units of one and two-bedroom apartments, plus studio apartments. (First residential occupations Sept 2007)
A prestigious new office building (block 900) offering five floors of offices, totalling approximately 50,000 sq ft.
High quality bars, cafes and restaurants with great opportunity for external dining around the landscaped central square. (First cafés opened May and June 2007 – HM The Queen officially opened thehub:mk in Nov 2007).
Specialist retail units and private underground car parking.
Whole site expected to be complete by 2008.



Sainsbury's

Approximately 10,000 sq/m state-of-the-art Sainsbury's food store. Approximately 402 apartments and townhouses. A roof top garden - the size of a football pitch - with water feature. The first residential units were completed in Oct 2007.

500 sq/m community/’not for profit’ space. Retail, commercial units and leisure space.

Car parking at ground level and two basement levels – over 1000 car parking spaces, approximately 402 secure residential with concierge service and video entry system - 500 free spaces for shoppers (up to 3 hours).

Sainsbury's new superstore opened on 7 October 2008 - has a large area designated to its home and clothing ranges as well as a new 260 seater café. New store opening times are: Monday-Friday 7am till 11pm; Saturday 7am till 10.30pm; Sunday 11am till 5pm.


West End

The overall development area is Midsummer Boulevard to Child’s Way (H6) and Witan Gate to Grafton Gate.

This site is for a new residential community with approximately 1,900 residential units. A large percentage (805) will be apartments and the remainder town-houses and live-in work units.
This is part of the Sustainable Residential Quarter, a new community, which could support over 5000 people.

Phase One (2.96 ha site) will deliver 650 townhouses and apartments as part of a mixed-use development also integrating retail and commercial use. A 420-place combined school with an all weather sports pitch is also included in this phase. Work on phase one expected to start Spring 2008.



Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

The Combined Heat and Power is located at the rear of thehub:mk, CBX 11 and CBX 1 between Midsummer Boulevard and Silbury Boulevard. A CHP is a system that will supply electricity and heat to thehub:mk (hotels, apartments and offices) and to the proposed new residential area in the West End of city centre.

CHP is the means by which the heat produced during the generation of electricity can be put to good use, rather than being wasted. Standard power plants generally use only 40% of the fuel they burn in producing electricity. This can result in 60% of the burnt fuel being rejected or ‘wasted’ up the smoke stack.

CHP will be connected to the mains power grid and provide electricity with the opportunity to sell some of it back to the grid. In addition, CHP uses this generated heat to produce hot water for heating buildings in a surrounding area by a district heating system (working rather like a domestic central heating system). This is most efficient when there is a mix of areas near the plant creating a varied need for heat through the day and night such as residential, schools/colleges and businesses.
Installing a CHP system can lead to substantial savings in total energy costs as well as helping the environment since less heat and fewer carbon dioxide emissions are rejected into the atmosphere.



Theatre North Side

50 residential apartments
3 ground floor restaurants
Underground car parking
Completed Summer 2007 – first occupation Sept 2007



The Pinnacle

This new office site is situated on the south side of Midsummer Boulevard. Predominantly office scheme with two small retail units comprising approximately 200,000 sq ft. The building design is being constructed to achieve a BRE Energy Efficient ‘Excellence’ Rating and incorporates 180 underground car parking spaces and 60 secure bicycle bays).

The Developer is Hampton Brook Developments Ltd. This is the largest single office development to be built in CMK in 25 years.
Start on site was summer 2007, with expected completion in Spring 2009. 50% has already been prelet: Deloitte & Touche LLP; and Denton Wilde Sapte LLP.


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