A petition set up by the Milton Keynes Conservatives to achieve free parking in Central Milton Keynes for all shoppers has reached over 1,000 signatures. The campaign, backed by local MPs and councillors, aims to help attract shoppers back as MK’s economy begins to recover from lockdown.

The role of Head of Economic Development at MK Council is being removed from MK Council’s management structure in a bid to make savings.

Key workers that staff and administer Covid-19 tests at the Central MK drive-through testing facility are being denied key worker free parking, contrary to the Labour-led MK Council’s offer of free parking to key workers in council-owned on-street bays.  

An MK Council motion successfully put forward in September 2018 by Conservative Councillor Allan Rankine to convince MK Council to become a Social Mobility Champion and sign local businesses up to the Social Mobility Pledge has come under serious question at MK Council’s Full Council meeting this

Figures have revealed that Milton Keynes Council is overseeing the distribution of £137.6 million worth of local relief funding and support from the Government. The funding is helping to support care homes, maintain local bus services and provide food and shelter for rough sleepers.

This week is Volunteers’ Week and across Milton Keynes we’ve seen huge efforts from our communities’ unsung heroes to help alleviate problems caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Conservatives have vowed to engage in an assault on the rising levels of anti-social behaviour and crime in Milton Keynes if they take control of MK Council on May 7th.