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David Lock Strategic Planning Advisor David Lock Associates Ltd

David Lock Strategic Planning Advisor David Lock Associates Ltd.

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David Lock Strategic Planning Advisor David Lock Associates Ltd

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  1. David Lock Strategic Planning Advisor David Lock Associates Ltd

  2. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR BUSINESS 2104 - LIVERPOOL BUSINESS PLANNING FOR CITY AND REGIONAL INNOVATION27 June 2014, Foresight Centre, University of LiverpoolBUSINESS NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANS: THE CENTRAL MILTON KEYNES FRONTRUNNER David Lock CBE MRTPI Strategic Planning Adviser, David Lock Associates Milton Keynes, Melbourne and Sydney

  3. 17 May 2011 – Localism Bill to Report Stage Greg Clark Announces "business neighbourhood frontrunners“: Aldershot Town Centre Bankside, London Central Milton Keynes Liverpool Innovation Park Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead Trafford Park, Manchester South Bank, London West End, London

  4. THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PLAN 2003 The Four Major Growth Areas

  5. Milton Keynes 1967, Llewelyn-Davies Forestier Walker Weeks and Bor

  6. IMAGE Central Milton Keynes

  7. CENTRAL MILTON KEYNES OFFERED TO DCLG BY MILTON KEYNES COUNCIL NO PRIOR CONSULTATION WITH COMMUNITY OR BUSINESS BUT

  8. EMERGING CORE STRATEGY PROPOSED 1m SQ FT ADDITIONAL RETAIL 2m SQ FT ADDITIONAL B1 OFFICES A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTRE 5,000 HOMES AND SEVERAL YEARS OF POOR QUAILRTY DEVELOPMENT, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND LOSS OF DISTINCTIVENESS MEANT THAT STAKEHOLDERS GRABBED THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHAPE THE BUSINESS NEIGHBOURHOOD

  9. WHO TO ANCHOR THE CMK BUSINESS NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? MK COUNCIL NOT TRUSTED OR ADEQUATELY RESOURCED MK A FULLY PARISHED UNITARY COUNCIL SO THE STAKEHOLDERS AGREED TO CREATE THE CMK ALLIANCE: MILTON KEYNES TOWN COUNCIL (an urban parish council) With a Steering group comprised of: 4 CMK Town Councillors, 4 MK Council Members And 8 Business Representatives

  10. WHO TO PAY FOR MAKING THE CMK BUSINESS NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? DCLG: SPECIAL MONEY GIVEN TO MK COUNCIL WHO SHOULD SHARE IT DCLG: MK COUNCIL SHOULD HAND OVER THEIR “PLANNING BUDGET” – ANSWER NO MK TOWN COUNCIL PROVIDED A BUDGET AND VOLUNTARY “IN KIND” CONTRIBUTIONS FOR BUSINESS BUDGET AROUND £180,00 MKTC 20% BUSINESS 32% MKC 26% DCLG 12% PRO BONO COMMUNITY 23% SERIOUSLY INADEQUATE (GOODWILL FOR AN EXPERIMENT, BUT NOT FOR EVER)

  11. SAFETY VALVES THROTTLED DOWN OR SHUT

  12. SAFETY VALVES THROTTLED DOWN OR SHUT

  13. CONSUME YOUR OWN SMOKE

  14. CONSUME YOUR OWN SMOKE

  15. CONSUME YOUR OWN SMOKE

  16. CONSUME YOUR OWN SMOKE

  17. Primary Shopping Area and Midsummer Boulevard East Inset Action Area

  18. Active Frontages

  19. THE EXAMINATION AND NOW THE REFERENDUMS CONUNUMDRUM WHOLE CITY or JUST THE NEIGHBOURHOOD?

  20. LESSONS FOR BUSINESS • TOO SLOW & AN ATTEMPTED DUPLICATE OF COUNCIL WORK • PRO BONO TIME CONSUMING • CASH EXPECTED • RESENTMENT THAT TAXES HAVE ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR THIS SERVICE; but • EXCELLENT NETWORKING • STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE FUTURE – a powerful local axis has been born

  21. The Inexorable Demographic

  22. dlock@davidlock.com 50 North Thirteenth St, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3BP, UK

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