Bletchley Park Holdings (BPH – a group of investors with no connection to Bletchley Park) own G Block and the Wartime Canteen in Wilton Avenue. They have secured both sites with hoarding, installed security cameras, and arrange for essential maintenance to be carried out from time to time. Emma James, of Places Made, works on […]
BPARA Annual Meeting – 7 May
The BPARA Annual meeting will take place in the new Auditorium at Bletchley Park which was the location for the Government’s AI Safety Summit last November. The meeting will commence at 6.45 with refreshments and end around 8.30. The speakers will include either John Cove, Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Town Deal Board Chair or Darrel Canvin, […]
Sad news – Chris Simpson
Chris Simpson, Life President, passed away after a short illness at Willen Hospice on Saturday, 9 March. Chris was a Co-Founder of BPARA which held its Inaugural Meeting on 26 April 1990 at the Bletchley Grammar School. Seventy-five people attended the meeting to support the formation/preservation of the Bletchley Park Museum which was in danger […]
Bletchley Parking Engagement Events
MKCC has commissioned a parking survey and demand study for Bletchley Town Centre. As part of that work, they are required to undertake in person engagement sessions with representative Town Centre stakeholders to explore existing issues, needs and challenges and to discuss potential solutions to supplement their survey work. Residents can attend an engagement event […]
Brunel Centre Draft Development Brief – Consultation Deadline Extended!
Milton Keynes City Council (MKCC) has extended the Draft Development Brief consultation deadline to 31 December 2023 – have your say and help decide the future of the site that includes the Brunel Centre, the former Sainsbury’s, Wilko, and Stanier Square. The site is owned by MKCC/Milton Keynes Development Partnership (part of MKCC). BPARA and other bodies […]
Brunel Centre Development
BPARA has submitted a response to MKCC. BPARA Brunel Brief 21 Nov 2023 The deadline for responses is 5pm on Thursday, 23 November, and residents are encouraged to give their views.
BPARA Update
This post is intended for the 72 BPARA members who failed to receive the BPARA update emailed to members on 28 October. BPARA became aware after receiving the following message from Microsoft: ” Your message couldn’t be delivered. Despite repeated attempts to contact the recipient’s email system it didn’t respond. Contact the recipient by some […]
Bletchley Park Latest – Transformation & Global AI Safety Summit
The Bletchley Park Trust marks the completion of its biggest refurbishment project to date – a £13 million, three-phase project, to open up wartime buildings at the heart of the site for the very first time. For more information, including a video showing what has taken place, please go to https://bletchleypark.org.uk/bletchley-park-completes-redevelopment-project/ Bletchley Park is privileged […]
Community Sensory Garden – Britain in Bloom Award
Congratulations to Brenda Hart, West Bletchley Shed, Bletchley Lions and other volunteers for their work at the Community Sensory Garden on Church Green which has resulted in another RHS Britain in Bloom Outstanding Award. They achieved Level 5, scoring 90 out of a possible 100 points. Work on the nearby Remembrance Garden, and children’s posters […]
Brunel Centre Development Brief – Draft
Have your say and help decide the future of Bletchley’s Brunel Centre and the former Sainsbury’s site. MKCC has prepared a Draft Development Brief for the Brunel Centre, Bletchley, which will inform the future use and design for the site. The site includes the Brunel Centre, the former Sainsbury’s store, car park, Wilko and Stanier […]
Salden Park – new development
Proposed development at Salden Park, Milton Keynes, MK17 0EG You may recall that BPARA, West Bletchley and other councils have opposed the proposed development on the site formerly known as Salden Chase for many years. The name of the site is now Salden Park and is in the former Vale of Aylesbury, now part of […]
BPARA – Good news!
Thanks to Section 106 funding, via West Bletchley Council (WBC), BPARA has been able to update its processes by adopting automated systems and more efficient ways to pay annual subscriptions. This has enabled BPARA – the only residents’ association in West Bletchley – to offer membership to more households in the Bletchley Park Ward area. […]
Codebreaker Project
MKCC and partners are working on a new public artwork in Bletchley as a tribute to Alan Turing – BPARA members took part in the public consultation earlier this year. The selection process to appoint a practitioner to design and carry out the project is in progress – 230918_TuringBrief
Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Town Deal – Redways
Today, the BPARA Chair, together with the MKCC Engineer in charge of the Redways Project, visited the Blue Lagoon to view Sections 3 and 4, where work is nearing completion. Once finished, pedestrians and cyclists will have an excellent route through the Blue Lagoon area between Water Eaton Road and Drayton Road – perfect for […]
Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Town Deal – Brunel Centre Draft Development Brief
Milton Keynes City Council (MKCC) has released Annex A – Draft Brunel Centre Development Brief for the area that includes the Brunel Centre, the former Sainsbury’s supermarket and car park, plus the former Wilko site – all properties are owned by MKCC. Public consultation will be for a 2 month period and BPARA will issue […]
Bletchley Rail Station – Ticket Office Closure Consultation
Consultation is live for the proposed closure of the ticket office at Bletchley Rail Station as part of a large national consultation looking at hundreds of stations across England. The consultation for the proposal to close Bletchley ticket office has been extended to 1st September 2023. Find out more about the consultation on the Transport […]
Bletchley Park to host the UK AI Safety Summit 2-3 November
Bletchley Park is privileged to have been chosen as the venue for the first major international summit on AI safety this November. There will be a gathering of world leaders here, hosted by the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. You can read more about the event at https://bletchleypark.org.uk/bletchley-park-to-host-ai-safety-summit/ Bletchley Park will be closed to the public […]
Healthwatch Milton Keynes
The Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (ICB) is an NHS organisation responsible for planning for the health needs of the population and managing the NHS budget. The ICB works with the MK Health and Care Partnership on three priority areas: Helping avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and improving hospital discharge. Children […]
East West Rail
Following lobbying by BPARA & the Town Deal Board, there will now be a public information event which will run from 2pm-8pm on 26 July at Fenny Stratford Community Centre, 13 George Street, Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, MK2 2NR. This is a good opportunity to view the plans for the Marston Vale Line between Bletchley/Fenny Stratford […]
Consortium of Bletchley Residents Associations (COBRA)
The residents’ associations in the Bletchley/Fenny Stratford area are members of the Consortium of Bletchley Residents Associations (COBRA) – COBRA July 2023. Further information can be found at https://www.bletchley.org.uk – this is a new website in the process of being set up by COBRA. BPARA is a COBRA member and the BPARA Chair is also […]
