New Heartbeat for a Green City ; Milton Keynes Property On Sunday

Mail on Sunday › January 26, 2004

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MILTON KEYNES

Unrelentingly modern and fast moving, on an American-style grid of broad highways with golf courses ensuite, estates dotted everywhere and older villages so hidden away that even the locals have difficulty finding them, Milton Keynes is unique in Britain.

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New Heartbeat for a Green City ; Milton Keynes Property On Sunday

But perhaps the concrete cow and roundabout jokes will finally be put to bed with last week's announcement by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott that the town is to be hugely expanded. With 70,000 new homes planned, the population is set to more than double to 500,000 by 2016.

Not that Milton Keynes has been dormant...

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