Editing Milton Keynes (section)

===Forest city concept===
The Development Corporation's original design concept aimed for a "forest city" and its foresters planted millions of trees from its own nursery in Newlands in the following years.<ref name="walker2"/> Parks, lakes and green spaces cover about 25% of Milton Keynes;<ref name="parkstrust1" /><ref name="dmk-p&l">{{cite web |url=http://www.destinationmiltonkeynes.co.uk/What-to-do/Parks-and-Lakes |title=Parks & Lakes |publisher=Destination MK |access-date=3 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042912/http://www.destinationmiltonkeynes.co.uk/What-to-do/Parks-and-Lakes |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018|lc=y}}, there are 22 million trees and shrubs in public open spaces.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/our-region/milton-keynes/millions-of-trees-in-milton-keynes-to-be-spruced-up-in-2019-1-8726346 | title=Millions of trees in Milton Keynes to be spruced up in 2019 | first=Paige | last=Browne | work=[[Milton Keynes Citizen]] | date=23 December 2018 | access-date=6 February 2019 | archive-date=7 February 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207072233/https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/our-region/milton-keynes/millions-of-trees-in-milton-keynes-to-be-spruced-up-in-2019-1-8726346 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="dmk-p&l" /> When the Development Corporation was being [[Liquidation|wound up]], it transferred the major parks, lakes, river-banks and grid-road margins to the [[Milton Keynes Parks Trust|Parks Trust]],{{sfnb|Bendixson|Platt|1992|p=259}} a [[Foundation (charity)|charity]] which is independent of the municipal authority.<ref name="parkstrust1" /> MKDC endowed the Parks Trust with a portfolio of commercial properties, the income from which pays for the upkeep of the green spaces.<ref name="parkstrust1">{{cite web |url=https://www.theparkstrust.com/our-work/about-us/the-parks-trust-model/ |title=The Parks Trust model |publisher=The [[Milton Keynes Parks Trust]] |access-date=7 March 2012 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042834/https://www.theparkstrust.com/our-work/about-us/the-parks-trust-model/ |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theparkstrust.com/our-work/about-us/facts-and-figures/ |title=Facts and Figures |publisher=[[Milton Keynes Parks Trust]] |access-date=20 February 2019 |archive-date=21 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221054800/https://www.theparkstrust.com/our-work/about-us/facts-and-figures/ |url-status=live }} "The Parks Trust looks after over 6,000 acres of parkland and green space". The urban area measures approximately {{convert|30000|acres|ha}}.</ref>  It includes two  [[Site of Special Scientific Interest|Sites of Special Scientific Interest]], [[Howe Park Wood]] and [[Oxley Mead]].