Editing Talk:Milton Keynes (section)

== Central Milton Keynes is not Milton Keynes ==

I reverted an edit by {{u|DragonofBatley}} because it is at odds with reality.  I appreciate that editors from elsewhere have difficulty getting their heads around the way that MK works. It is fully parished. It has six town councils as well as many parish councils: all are subsidiary to  [[Milton Keynes Council]]. [[Central Milton Keynes]] is just the [[central business district]]: in accordance with the law, it declared itself to be a town. In a poly-centric settlement, it is first among equals but is ''a'' town centre, not ''the'' town centre. --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 19:49, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

:Firstly, the article is about MK, not CMK, which is a '''part of''' MK (and is not MK itself), regardless of political status, and thus that citation isn't useful at all anyway. 
:Secondly, yes the issue of what MK is has come up a lot, and (very reasonably) people don't understand all the nooks and crannies about MK that make it different from probably most other places in the UK. For one, there are only two '''political''' entities that can be called "Milton Keynes", that is the [[Borough of Milton Keynes]], and the [[Middleton, Milton Keynes#Civil parish|Milton Keynes (civil parish)]]. Within the former lie seven areas (including [[Olney]]) with either a '''town council''', '''town charter''', or both (CMK does contain both). Those are the official "towns." The New Town designation order was just that, a designation order, whose area is more akin to an '''urban development area''' as opposed to an actual entity in and of itself (same could be argued for [[Telford]]). In reality, MK is (not) as much of a town, as it is (not) as much of a city. It is referred to either only as a matter of '''practicalities''' rather than '''technicalities.''' Anyway, the word "settlement" avoids this confusion, so I think its better to stay that way. [[User:Anonymous MK2006|Anonymous MK2006]] ([[User talk:Anonymous MK2006|talk]]) 16:53, 8 February 2022 (UTC)