Significant emphasis was also placed on town planning, with new conservation areas introduced and a new generation of new towns built, notably Milton Keynes – this trend itself a continuation of efforts initiated in the latter years of the preceding Conservative administration.

Berrill Building, built in 1997, forms the new entrance to the 48-hectare Open University campus at Walton Hall in Milton Keynes, England.

The Milton Keynes campus had actually been built by the university in 1981 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1982, prior to the official foundation of De Montfort University as a New University.

Departments at Milton Keynes included computing, built environment and business.

Abbey's registered office was in London ( built on the site of the former Thames Television studios in Euston Road ) and its main corporate centre in Milton Keynes.

Wimbledon completed their controversial relocation to Milton Keynes and moved into the National Hockey Stadium, which would be used as a temporary home until a permanent home was built at Denbigh North.

This is due to Milton Keynes being built as a modern new town in the 1960s.

The comprehensive welfare state built in the UK after the Second World War, although largely accomplished by the Labour Party, was significantly designed by two Liberals — John Maynard Keynes, who laid the economic foundations, and William Beveridge, who designed the welfare system.

The British new town of Milton Keynes is built around a grid of one-kilometre square superblocks.

The Grand Junction's original act in 1793 authorised branches to Daventry, the River Nene at Northampton, to the turnpike road at Old Stratford ( north-west of the modern Milton Keynes ), and to Watford in Hertfordshire: those to Daventry and Watford were not built.

The ICAEW has two offices in the UK ; the main one is in Moorgate, London and the other in Central Milton Keynes, in the newly built Hub: MK complex.

She built a Bedfordshire hunting lodge with fine vistas, Houghton House, now ruined near Milton Keynes ), which John Bunyan refers to in his works, as the " House Beautiful ".

It was built in 1962 and caters for pupils from Purton parish, Lydiard Millicent, Cricklade, Ashton Keynes and West Swindon.

In June 2005, Silverlink announced their intent to extend their Marston Vale service via the West Coast Main Line to Milton Keynes Central, where a new platform and track would be built ( alongside the slow mainline " up " track ).

Originally a major intercity station, that role passed to Milton Keynes Central in 1982 when the latter was built, long after the east / west route had been downgraded, taking Bletchley's importance as a junction with it.

Platform 2A is a four-car south-facing bay platform built for the extension of Marston Vale Line services into Milton Keynes Central.

Before Milton Keynes Central was built.

As a result, their fortunes on the pitch suffered and the move to Milton Keynes in September 2003 ( initially in the National Hockey Stadium until a new permanent stadium was built ) did little to solve matters.

Even worse, Milton Keynes is built in dip ( surrounded by high terrain and trees ), and as a result, most residents are also unable to use Freeview terrestrial or even Sky and Freesat satellite signals.

Georgists, half a century before Keynes, also noted the cyclical nature but focused on the role of speculation in land which pushes up economic rent.

Lionel Robbins, former head of the economics department at the London School of Economics, who had many heated debates with Keynes in the 1930s, had this to say after observing Keynes in early negotiations with the Americans while drawing up plans for Bretton Woods:

In 1960 he published the book The Critics of Keynesian Economics where he gathered together the major criticisms of Keynes made up to that year.

Keynes had attended church up to his teens,

Keynes was ultimately a successful investor, building up a private fortune.

*** AFC Wimbledon, a professional football club set up by former fans of Wimbledon FC in protest at the relocation to Milton Keynes

One of the largest Breaks nights north of London is Milton Keynes lead Beatcheck, set up in 2006.

Sheffield Park has been restored to a Victorian ambience, as it would have appeared during the time of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( up to 1922 ); Horsted Keynes emulates the Southern Railway ( 1922 – 1948 ); and Kingscote echoes the British Railways of the 1950s.

features Horsted Keynes as a station in which the four main draftees meet up ( following a major fire incident at RAF Skelton ) and also where Bruce Leckie walks up the track and up the platform as seen at the start of the episode.

Unlike its neighbour and namesake Great Linford it has yet to be joined up with Milton Keynes.

Shenley ( which consists of the villages / areas named Shenley Wood, Shenley Lodge, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Dens, Shenley Hill and Shenley Church End ) is one of the parts of Buckinghamshire that went to make up the " new city " of Milton Keynes in the 1960s.

McGee does have a sidekick of sorts, in his best friend Meyer, an internationally known and respected economist who lives on a cabin cruiser of his own near McGee's at Bahia Mar, the John Maynard Keynes, and later, after the Keynes is blown up, aboard its replacement, the Thorstein Veblen.

In 2003 seven new parish councils were set up for Burton upon Trent, and in 2001 the Milton Keynes urban area became entirely parished, with ten new parishes being created.

From the forties and up through the fifties, Mattick went through a study of John Maynard Keynes and compiled a series of critical notes and articles against Keynesian theory and practice.

Despite consistent fan opposition to the idea, relocation up the M1 motorway to the new town was raised several more times over the next two decades ; for example, The Football League refused Luton permission to move to Milton Keynes in 2000, saying that a member club was not allowed to leave its home town.

The band split up after their final UK tour, which was due to be 9 November 2007, in their home town of Milton Keynes.

However their ' final show ' took place on 7 June 2008, at the Pitz club in Milton Keynes, following a ' warm up ' at the Kingston Peel on 5 June 2008.

A supporter's trust was set up to keep the club at Loftus Road, and to fight the suggested move out of the stadium and to Milton Keynes.

In the December of that season, Mellor picked up a knee injury in the 1 – 0 win over Milton Keynes and was ruled out for three months.

He eventually came up with his own theories, which he cobbled together from the work of John Maynard Keynes, Abraham Lincoln, and the Bible.

Finally, five " third-generation " towns were launched in the late 1960s: these were larger, some of them based on substantial existing settlements such as Peterborough, and the most famous was probably Milton Keynes, midway between London and Birmingham, known for its huge central park and shopping centre, designed from the outset as a new city – though in law it is a ' New Town '.

At one time, Newport Pagnell was one of the largest towns in the County of Buckinghamshire ( the assizes of the County were occasionally held there ) though today, despite its own substantial expansion, it has been completely dwarfed by the growth of Milton Keynes.