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The Ombudsman upheld 36 of 39 complaints it investigated against MK Council last year, 15 about SEND, and says late remedies are a problem for the fifth year running.
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Schools
MK Five-Year-Olds Beat 2028 Early Years Target: 76.4%
76.4% of MK five-year-olds reached a good level of development, the council says, past the 2028 target of 75%. Official data put MK 14th of 153 last year.
Events
What's On in Milton Keynes: Oktoberfest, Fright Fiesta and Mamma Mia!
Oktoberfest in Campbell Park on 9 and 10 October, Fright Fiesta at Gulliver's from the 10th, Mamma Mia! from the 13th, and Olney's fireworks on 1 November.
Council
Bletchley Parking Trial Cut as MK Council Rewrites Motions
A six-month parking crackdown for Bletchley was cut from a motion before MK Council passed it. Three other opposition motions were rewritten the same way.
Council
Milton Keynes Taxi Fees Frozen After Six Years of Rises
Taxi licence fees will not rise in April 2027 after three years of surplus, council officers say. Pub, scrap metal and gambling fees still go up 2.9%.
Olney
Olney's £375,000 Play Park Opens With a Giant Hare
Phase one at Johnson's Field is open, with a hare sculpture nodding to Cowper's pets. A zipline and trim trail for older children follow by spring 2027.
House Prices
Milton Keynes House Prices Hit Record £330,419
The average Milton Keynes home reached £330,419 in July, the highest since the index began in 2009 and up £8,438 in a year. Flats were the only type to fall.
Business
Canon Industrial Estate in Wolverton Sold for About £28m
Wolverton's 29-unit Canon Industrial Estate has sold for about £28m, £147 a square foot. The seller paid £18.09m for it in 2019. What it means for tenants.
Local Info
Milton Keynes House Prices: £330,419, a Record High
The average Milton Keynes home was worth £330,419 in July 2026, up 2.6% in a year and the highest on record. Median sold prices for all 18 MK postcode districts.
Transport
Milton Keynes E-Scooter Trial: MP Survey Opens for MK North
Chris Curtis MP has opened a survey on the MK e-scooter trial for Milton Keynes North residents, before a summit with Lime, Dott, the council and police.
Council
MK Heat Network: Civic and Library Contract Approved
The council has approved a contract to prepare the Civic, Central Library and Woughton Leisure Centre for a waste-heat network. No cost or date published.
Bletchley
Serpentine Court Demolition: £6.3m, and No New Tender
Knocking down Serpentine Court on Bletchley's Lakes Estate has a £6.3m budget and goes to the builder already on site with no new tender, after 24/7 guards.
Environment
Aspley Guise Koi Herpesvirus Outbreak: Fish Movements Banned
Koi herpesvirus is confirmed in carp at a fish growing site on Salford Road, Aspley Guise, near Milton Keynes. No fish may move in or out of it.
Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 and laid out on a grid, and it is one of the few places in England where you can give directions by number. The H roads run one way, the V roads the other, and the estates sit inside the squares between them with the redways threading through. Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford were here long before the new town arrived, and Newport Pagnell keeps its own high street to the north east.
MK Daily reports what the record shows across all of it. Milton Keynes City Council is a unitary authority, so planning, bins, roads, licensing, council tax and schools all sit with the same body, and there is nobody else to pass a question to. It publishes the evidence for its decisions where hardly anybody reads it. We read it and write it up, with a link to the document every time.
Every figure links back to the source it came from.