Wider Masterplan
The plan for Campbell Park Northside
A new neighbourhood for a pioneering city: six key principles.
Six key principles underpin our ideas and ambition for Campbell Park Northside. Designed to create a neighbourhood that is diverse, inclusive, accessible and innovative, these principles are a continuation of the city’s story so far; based on an understanding of its past, and its ambitions for the future.
Taking a placemaking approach to the growth of this pioneering city, these goals are about creating a place where people want to live: more sustainably and more healthily, with wellbeing, quality of life and community at the heart of their decision.
Wider links to Campbell Park Northside
Redway Connections
Future Connections
Residential Streets
1. Living in the park
It’s about living in a park, not beside one.
We want to make Silbury a boulevard through the park, strengthening the existing pedestrian links and bringing new amenity that will further animate and activate the park. Green fingers extend from the park centre and join up with the ancient Portway. Neighbourhood activity extends from Campbell Park Northside into the park centre, so that our residents have a sense of living in the park and moving seamlessly between residential, amenity and recreational space.
2. Living in the city
Connecting to CMK.
Campbell Park Northside presents a unique offer to its future residents through being both parkside and cityside. It is important to knit this development back into the wider city proposition and to make its proximity to the city centre an intrinsic part of the plan. We want to extend the CMK proposition along Silbury Boulevard and the Redway.
Nodes of activity will intercept the Redway through a series of mini hubs with integrated amenities. We’re thinking coffee shops, cycle shops and hire facilities, and independent boutiques. This will animate the axis between CMK and the Grand Union Canal to facilitate activity in the park, drawing the park into the city and the city into the park.
3. A place for all
A cohesive community.
Campbell Park Northside has the scale, location and partners to deliver a rich and characterful neighbourhood and a variety of housing typologies, creating opportunity for single occupancy through to multigenerational households. Not the mono-culture of the garden suburb but a diverse garden city neighbourhood for all ages and incomes.
4. Denser and greener
22 million trees and counting.
Trees in our streets make us healthier, and our sense of wellbeing increases the closer we live to water. Pockets of green (and rivers of blue) in urban spaces dampen down noise, absorb pollution, give kids a place to play and have the capacity to repopulate our cities with wildlife.
Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, to learn that being surrounded by a more natural habitat reduces stress and improves our mood. And perhaps it makes sense to prioritise natural spaces within our built environment to plant everything that doesn’t move, use the rainwater we drain away to feed ponds and green verges and create green corridors that join up parks, canals and pockets of open space.
5. Active landscape
Live well by accident.
We know that successful neighbourhoods fulfil more than our housing needs; a future neighbourhood is a rich and liveable neighbourhood; a great place to be with lots to do. Strong foundations for a community can be built through social activity and the places we meet, whether through leisure or work. Better design of places we live can provide easier access to healthier routines.
More time spent outdoors, in the park, on the water and in the garden and less time spent in the car. Our plans for Campbell Park Northside are to deliver a well-connected environment designed to make a difference, allowing residents of all ages to live well effortlessly. Making the right choices the natural choices to make.
6. Future transport
Providing for the here and now, planning for the future.
While the car remains king, ease of movement around the city and connections across the country continue to make Milton Keynes an attractive place to live. Yet with an eye on the future, we want to harness the flexibility of grid roads and Redways to enable travel by car, cycle, on foot, and by shared public transport - mobility for all. From low emission vehicles for fixed-route buses and on-demand buses, shared taxis, car clubs, short-loan bikes and electric bikes to driverless cars and driverless pods, MK is well placed to meet carbon emissions targets whilst supporting the development of the UK’s fastest growing city.