Fairfields

Fairfields

Fairfields

Civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England

This article is about the civil parish in England. For the Scottish shipbuilding company, see Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.
Not to be confused with Fairfield.

Fairfields is a neighbourhood and civil parish that covers a large new development area on the western flank of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. As the first tier of Local Government, the parish council is responsible for the people who live and work in this area of Milton Keynes.

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It is bounded by Calverton Lane (the Monks Way (H3) alignment west of Watling Street), Watling Street (V4), the Ridgeway (H1) reserve route, and a hedgerow line with Calverton CP.[1] The district covers 123.5 hectares (305 acres) (including open space) and is projected to have 2,220 homes and 9 hectares (22 acres) of employment land.[2]

Origins

The (greenfield) land it occupies was previously part of Fairfield Farm, in Calverton, a rural parish that is now just outside the Milton Keynes urban area. In 2004, the Government decided on the further expansion of Milton Keynes and accordingly designated land on the eastern and western flanks for this purpose.[3] Along with the adjacent parish of Whitehouse (and Broughton on the eastern flank), this is the part of the implementation of that decision.

Notes

  1. The parish did not exist at the time of the 2011 census. Its small population was included in the census for Calverton.

References

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  1. [1]
    "Fairfields". ONS. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Western Expansion Area (WEA)". Milton Keynes Council. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. [3]
    Milton Keynes to double in size over next 20 years – Peter Hetherington, regional affairs editor, The Guardian, 6 Jan 2004


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