In his latest column, chairman Theo Chalmer’s reports on a very significant move in the fight to save Stony Stratford from gross over-development by an uncaring landlord from the other side of the world.  Please click on p16 november 2013, then double click to open the PDF file to read this important story.

Click on p15 october 2013, then double click to open the PDF: our Urban Eden Chairman is more upbeat this Autumn in his Business MK column, in which he looks at the positive impact of improvement to MK’s broadband access achieved by hard lobbying.

Theo Chalmers is dismayed by developers’ plans for a dreadful 11-storey block of flats opposite the Hub, extending and amplifying the latter’s 60′s Dresden architecture.  Click on p19 september 2013, then double click to read his article in Business MK.  Kicked to touch for the moment, Theo warns that this proposed carbuncle will be back unless we are vigilant and insist on architecture of which we can be proud in our city.

Our Chairman is on holiday this month, but he gets a quote on the Back Page of June’s Business MK.  Theo is concerned that the exclusion of a truly independent voice on the Milton Keynes Development Partnership is missed opportunity and makes a mockery of due process.  To read the article click on p20 june 2013 then double click to open.

This month Theo bemoans the state of our redways and the failure to extend these properly into new developments.  Perhaps things are about to change if the council really does put £10 million into this unique asset.  To read more click on p08 may 2013, then double click to open the PDF of his article.

Developers’ out-of-character proposals for the redevelopment of Cofferidge Close in Stony Stratford have been rejected by Milton Keynes planners, to the delight of well-organised local objectors.  In his latest column Theo Chalmers explains how this victory is a triumph for people power.  Click on p08 april 2013, then double click to open and read Theo’s piece.

See what Chairman Theo Chalmers had to say about his application to contribute to the workings of the new Milton Keynes Development Partnership, established to steward the land tranferred to MK Council by the H&CA.  To read Theo’s latest column please click on p06 march 2013, then double click on the PDF to open and read this story of our times.

Urban Eden and like-minded citizens strike again: read this important story as presented by Milton Keynes Citizen: please click on Celebration to see the details.

At the last moment thecentre:mk lost its nerve and withdrew the planning application to demolish Seklow Gate.  To see the story in Milton Keynes Citizen, please click on: Withdrawn.  Nevertheless do watch this space, they may try again; we must not be complacent.

Retail is changing superfast.  In in latest column Theo Chalmers agues that by grasping the nettle, Milton Keynes can be ahead of the game.  Click on p09 february 2013 and then double click to open the PDF file and read this column.