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.

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