14-555: The Parks Trust (originally, the Milton Keynes Parks Trust ) is a British registered charity formed in 1992 by Milton Keynes Development Corporation to take over the public parks in Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire . It was given a £20 million endowment, based mainly in various commercial and retail properties in the city, and a 999-year lease on around 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) of open space. The Trust's chief executive
28-539: A housing architect and moved to Coventry in 1958 where he became an architect specialising in schools. In 1963, he returned to housing when he became principal development architect for the Midlands Housing Consortium. In 1965, Roche became chief architect and planning officer for Runcorn new town. He led on the design of the new town centre, Runcorn Shopping City . In 1970, he moved to Milton Keynes in north Buckinghamshire to be General Manager of
42-517: Is Victoria Miles MBE. Many of the parks feature significant public art , particularly in Campbell Park . Milton Keynes is unusual in that most of the parks are owned and managed by a Trust rather than the local authority ( Milton Keynes City Council ), to ensure that the management of MK's green spaces are largely independent of the council's expenditure priorities. Together, the Parks Trust and
56-621: The Housing Corporation to become the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). Control over design passed to Milton Keynes Partnership which remained a major landowner in the city. Design criteria became more similar to those being applied by the HCA on sites it owned across the country. Public parks were transferred to the Milton Keynes Parks Trust , a registered charity. Fred Roche Frederick Lloyd Roche , CBE (11 March 1931 – 9 November 1992),
70-601: The City Council manage 6,335 acres (2,564 ha) of parkland, woodland and other open space across the City of Milton Keynes unitary authority area. As well as formal parks, the Trust looks after 400 acres (160 ha) of lakes, the verges of 80 miles (130 km) of roads and three ancient woodlands. In total, the Trust looks after over 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of green space across Milton Keynes. Notable parks include Willen Lake in
84-588: The Development Corporation at the age of 39. He oversaw the major growth of the 'new city' through to 1981. Thereafter, he joined with Terence Conran to establish the new architecture and planning consultancy, Conran Roche. The company developed a number of projects during the 1980s, including Butler's Wharf and Michelin House in London. He retired as managing director in 1988 due to ill health. In 1985 Roche
98-509: The designers would learn from the mistakes made in the earlier new towns and build a city that people would be proud to call their home. On that date, the area within the designated area was home to some 40,000 people in the existing towns and villages. It was placed where it would have a direct motorway (the M1 ) and rail link (the West Coast Main Line ) with the capital city, London , and
112-470: The east (the most popular public green space in Milton Keynes), Stanton Low Country Park in the north-west, and Howe Park Wood in the south-west, as well as various forest and nature reserves and floodplains around MK. Official website Milton Keynes Development Corporation Milton Keynes Development Corporation ( MKDC ) was a development corporation operating from 1967 to 1992 oversee
126-590: The eastern edge of the city. Situated in the north of Buckinghamshire near the borders with Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire , it would be a "city in the trees" – the planning guideline for residential areas outside Central Milton Keynes was "no building higher than the highest tree" – at a time when multi-storey flats and office blocks were dominating the redevelopment of most inner city areas and many large towns. The aims that MKDC set out in The Plan for Milton Keynes implied that
140-446: The overall development plan, with its grid pattern of distributor roads at roughly 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) intervals. When the planning enquiries were over, it was time for a different type of CEO and Fred Roche took over in 1970. Llewellyn Davies, with colleagues Walter Bor , John de Monchaux and Sue de Monchaux continued to contribute to the development of strategy., In 1980, Frank Henshaw took over from Fred Roche. Lord Campbell
154-481: The planning and early development of Milton Keynes , then a planned new town midway between London and Birmingham . MKDC was established on 23 January 1967 to provide the vision and execution of a "new city" that would be the modern interpretation of the garden city movement concepts first expressed by Ebenezer Howard 60 years earlier. It was headquartered in Wavendon Tower, in the village of Wavendon on
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#1732848688472168-501: The second city Birmingham ; both 50–60 miles away. Following publication of the Draft Master Plan for Milton Keynes , the government appointed Lord Campbell of Eskan ("Jock" Campbell) to chair the board of the new Development Corporation. For the critical local consultation period, Walter Ismay became the corporation's first Chief Executive. The Board invited as consultants Richard Llewellyn Davies and partners, who produced
182-573: Was a British architect who worked on the programme of new towns in the United Kingdom . He was Chief Architect of Runcorn Development Corporation from 1965 to 1970 and General Manager of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation from 1970 to 1981. In 1985, he was appointed a CBE. Roche trained at Regent Street Polytechnic (now University of Westminster ) and qualified in 1955. He remained in London for three years working as
196-598: Was succeeded by Sir Henry Chilver in 1983. MKDC promoted the Homeworld 81 exhibition in 1981, thirty-six houses showcasing "the latest developments in housing from international designers, architects and builders", and Energy World , a demonstration project of 51 low-energy houses completed in 1986. The Government wound up MKDC in 1992 after 25 years, transferring control to the Commission for New Towns , latterly part of English Partnerships , which subsequently merged with
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