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==Founding Fathers==
Following publication of the ''Draft Master Plan for Milton Keynes'', the government appointed [[Lord Campbell of Eskan]]. For the critical local consultation period, [[Walter Ismay]] became the Corporation's first Chief Executive. He added [[Richard Llewellyn Davies]], Walter Bor and John de Monchaux, who produced the overall development plan, with its grid pattern of distributor roads at roughly 1km intervals. When the planning enquiries were over, it was time for a different type of CEO and [[Fred Lloyd Roche]] took over in 1970.
==Closure==
The Government wound up MKDC in 1992, transferring control to the Commission for New Towns (CNT) and then finally to [[English Partnerships]]. Design guidance was weakened and subsequent [[built environment]] developments are considered barely distinguishable from the anonymous [[suburb]]s of other towns and cities around the UK. Conversely, the "river valleys, water courses and extensive landscape buffers within Milton Keynes provide a good example of how environmental assets can be integrated into new development." [http://www.emra.gov.uk/publications/MKSM.asp]. The natural environment is under control of the [http://www.mkweb.co.uk/parks-trust/ Parks Trust] and continues to be one of the major attractions to living in the city.
Most recently, English Partnerships has ended the height restriction and has sought to introduce high-rise blocks such as are being demolished elsewhere.
==Further reading==
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* [[New town]]s
* [[List of planned cities]]
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