Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
NIMBYs don’t have the upper hand everywhere
A school that has never seen children is a strange place. The carpets and walls are unnaturally clean; the building is eerily quiet. Elverby Primary School feels especially odd. It sits in a field north-east of Milton Keynes, amid mud and half-built roads. But the children will come, because some 5,000 homes are planned for the site. “And that’s only a fraction of what we can build, or want to,” says Peter Marland, leader of the Labour-run city council.
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