Milton Keynes Council is intending to commission a 'City Wide Infrastructure Study' as part of a comprehensive suite of background evidence studies that can inform and support future policy making.
The Council is seeking expressions of interest and open early engagement with organisations with the capabilities and expertise to undertake the work. The Council is currently in the early stage of development and seeking to judge interest from potential suppliers.
The Study will need to analyse and determine the infrastructure implications and requirements from the significant housing and employment growth anticipated in the Council’s Strategy for 2050, and delivered initially through the new Local Plan to 2040.
The Council also intends to progress a set of separate studies to inform the preparation of the new Local Plan, including:
- Landscape Character & Open Space Assessments - limited impact on the infrastructure study itself, but this will influence the spatial approach and potentially consideration of new green infrastructure
- Integrated Water Management Study - this will cover specific consideration of impacts on wastewater including potential infrastructure improvements to/the need for new wastewater treatment works
The work will also need to consider and align with a range of other important influences such as the recent Planning White Paper, the emerging Spatial Framework for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, cross-boundary infrastructure projects of sub-regional significance, and any other strategies and proposals which may come forward in adjoining authorities.
Deadline to submit expressions of interest and responses is 8th March 2021 – click here to access the EoI documentation.
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