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Local authorities like Milton Keynes City Council must set out plans to provide more homes and infrastructure (such as health facilities, schools and shops) to meet the growing needs of local people and businesses, while protecting our green spaces and rural areas. We also want Milton Keynes to grow sustainably, tackling and reducing the impact of climate change.
To do this, we create what’s called a local plan and review it every five years, and our current plan (Plan:MK) is now five years old. Therefore, we have been working to create a new plan, the MK City Plan 2050 (MKCP 2050) to help deliver our ambitions for the future of MK, and now the MKCP 2050 is almost here.
Producing the draft MKCP 2050 has been an iterative process. We have sought local feedback through periodic consultation activities since 2023, and the most recent engagement, the Regulation 18 consultation, took place between July and October 2024, garnering over 7,000 comments to helped us to produce a final version of the plan, to be submitted for examination by a Planning Inspector.
Now, we are seeking your input one final time through the Regulation 19 Consultation, and on Friday 7 November we will publish the final draft or ‘proposed submission’ MK City Plan 2050 for comment. So, over the next 6 weeks, we’re inviting communities and other stakeholders to have their final opportunity to comment on the plan, but this time seeking feedback on its legal compliance and "soundness"—whether it's positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy—before it is submitted for examination by a Planning Inspector.
Your comments, more formally known as representations, must clearly set out in what way you consider the plan or part of the plan to be legally non-compliant or unsound. It will be helpful if you can say how you think the plan should be changed. Your representation should be supported by evidence wherever possible.
Representations can be made via the Regulation 19 Consultation Platform
The relevant consultation documents can be viewed below:
If you would rather view the draft plan in person, physical copies of the plan (and the documents listed above), Response Forms, and a Guidance Note will be available in libraries across the Borough listed below during opening hours:
Library opening hours can be viewed here.
All comments must be received by 5:30pm on Monday 22nd December 2025.
Writing the Plan involves extensive evidence gathering, public consultations and joint working with neighbouring authorities and partners. Along with the evidence that we have gathered, the views you have submitted through previous consultations have helped us shape the MK City Plan 2050 that is emerging. The approach to public engagement taken by us in developing the Local Plan is set out in our Statement of Community Involvement. The plan will also need to meet the requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
To understand what a Local Plan is please watch this video by the Planning Inspectorate.
For some useful national planning context, please view this series of Fact Sheets relating to new homes and regeneration published by Homes England (the government's housing and regeneration agency).
A key component of the Local Plan is the evidence base. We have undertaken a number of different studies, including the Sustainability Appraisal to inform the development of the draft MK City Plan 2050. All policies in the plan must be based on evidence to ensure that they are sound.
If you need any of the consultation documents in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording, or braille, or if you find another accessibility problem, please email ncp.engagement@milton-keynes.gov.uk or telephone 01908 252358.
If you need this in hard copy or another format, please contact the city council at: ncp.engagement@milton-keynes.gov.uk.
Thank you very much to everyone who takes the time to respond to the consultation.
Development Plans, Milton Keynes City Council, Civic, 1 Saxon Gate East, Milton Keynes MK9 3EJ