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Mikhail Riches, Mole Architects and Urbed have submitted plans for the £28m transformation of a failed 1970s shopping complex into a residential neighbourhood in Milton Keynes.
The high-density low-rise plans, for developer Town, will provide 115 homes, small shops and community spaces laid out around new and reinstated streets – many of them car-free – on a 13ha brownfield site in the centre of Wolverton.
Town director Neil Murphy said 86 of the homes would now be built to rent in a response to delays caused by the pandemic. A PRS delivery model would accelerate construction, he said. The homes will be a mix of one- and two-bed flats and two- to four-bed houses, just under a third of them to be let at a discount.
Mole and Mikhail Riches submit plans to replace failed 70s Milton Keynes shopping centre
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Mole Architects and Stirling Prize-winning practice Mikhail Riches have submitted plans to replace the failed 1979 Agora shopping centre in Wolverton, north Milton Keynes, with 115 new homes
The £28 million scheme for developer TOWN promises to deliver homes for rent that will be 7 per cent bigger than national space standards and reduce carbon emissions against standard Building Regulations by 70 per cent.
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TOWN previously worked with Mole on the award-winning Marmalade Lane co-housing project in Cambridge.
The submission comes after last two years of consultation with Milton Keynes Council, key stakeholders and residents of Wolverton which have included an arts-led programme to say goodbye to the soon-to-be-demolished, red brick Agora Centre, referred to by locals as the spaceship