Changelog

One is for people who work in the centre, one for people who live in Milton Keynes and work elsewhere. Say how many days a month you park and see what the council's own prices make cheapest. Both come out the same way: a monthly permit starts to pay for itself at about 19 days a month.

Live positions for fifteen route groups across MK, from the Department for Transport's open bus data — how far each bus is from CMK, which side of the city it is on and which way it is heading, in plain words. Each route also carries its scheduled frequency and a link to its timetable, so the page still answers when no bus is moving. It is the companion to the MK Connect page: eleven routes were withdrawn in spring 2026, and this is what still runs.

Is centre:mk open, and Bletchley Park and MK Gallery — the town's three most-searched places to visit — worked out live from each venue's own published hours.

There is now a parking cost page for Central Milton Keynes. Choose how long you are staying and it works out what each bay colour costs, using the council's own 2026 tariffs. Two things were not in our notes before and are worth saying plainly, because both change the answer. The standard purple-bay tariff tapers: £1 an hour for the first two hours, then 50p an hour, with a two-hour minimum. A full day in a purple bay is £5. The red premium bays are £2.50 for the first hour and then £2 an hour, which is £16.50 for a working day. Blue long-stay bays are £10 for the day. Charges apply from 7am to 6pm every day, except Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. We also want to correct something we had recorded wrongly ourselves. The £675 figure that comes up whenever CMK parking is discussed is the twelve-month employee permit. A resident permit is £25 a year, and a resident visitor permit is £25 a year. Our own research notes had described the £675 as a residents' permit; they are now fixed against the council's published price list, and all the permit prices are on the new page. The employee permit is deliberately not in the cost comparison. At £3 a day it would come out cheapest for a long stay, and most people cannot buy one.

Sign in and tell other riders and walkers whether a redway route is clear, rough going or blocked — eleven routes along the grid roads, Railway Walk, the Ouse Valley and the CMK underpasses. It also carries the thing worth knowing before you need it: the council will only consider a claim for damage caused by a defect that had already been reported to them.

Eleven services ended in spring 2026 and MK Connect replaced them. This is what the council publishes about it: £4 peak and £3 off-peak, £1.50 on an older person's or disabled person's pass, distance surcharges past 5 km and 8 km, Monday to Saturday 6am to 8pm with no Sunday service, and the council's own note that most people wait around half an hour. Anything written about MK Connect before spring 2026 is likely out of date.

Pick your band and your parish area and see the 2026/27 charge, split between the city council, Thames Valley Police, the fire authority and your parish. All 48 parish areas are in it: 45 levy a precept, from £16.67 in Central Milton Keynes to £368.15 in Woughton at Band D, which is why two neighbouring streets can pay different totals.