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Newton Leys is a district that covers the southern tip of Bletchley; a constituent town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, on the boundary of the Borough of Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale. The area of Newton Leys within the Milton Keynes boundary forms a part of the Bletchley and Fenny Stratford civil parish and is separated from Central Bletchley, Water Eaton and the Lakes Estate by the West Coast Main Line. The area of Newton Leys within the Aylesbury Vale boundary forms a part of the Stoke Hammond civil parish, although the village of Stoke Hammond is situated on the other side of the A4146〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newtonleys.org.uk )〕 Newton Leys within Milton Keynes is a brownfield development and within Aylesbury Vale is greenfield. The full district covers some 104 hectares and comprises development land with housing for up to 1650 homes with employment areas, shops, a school, community facilities, new park, hotel and leisure facilities built on two former brickworks and farmland. The site his being developed by Taylor Wimpey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mkweb.co.uk/Housing/Newton-Leys.htm#ixzz2tVsVvoml )〕 Houses have been built at the development by Taylor Wimpey South Midlands, Taylor Wimpey North Thames, Persimmon, and Bovis Homes Group. The development area sits next to a man-made lake created from the brick making industry, a claypit was flooded to form Jubilee Lake, which has since become known as Willow Lake. The lakes at Newton Leys form part of a sustainable drainage system/balancing pond system designed to manage excess water caused by storms. Jubilee Brooks runs through the centre of the development, which rises north of Drayton Parslow and flows through the settlement towards the West Coast Mainline passing through the Lakes Estate where it joins with the Water Eaton Brook eventually flowing into the River Ouzel. Newton Leys is bordered by the A4146, the Bletchley Landfill Site operated by FCC Environment, Blue Lagoon Local Nature Reserve, Newton Longville and Stoke Hammond.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/assets/attach/4008/Local_Plan_Part_9.pdf )〕 The Oxford to Bletchley railway line runs along the northern border of the site, whilst the West Coast Main Line runs to the east of the site. ==History of the site== The Bletchley area is rich in Oxford Clay, which has long been used for bricks. There has been brickmaking taking place on the Newton Leys site and the surrounding area from the late 19th century, circa 1897.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/includes/external/bluelagoon/docs/bletchley%20bricks.html )〕 The brickworks were named Newton Longville Brickworks and were made up of two sites - Jubilee Brickworks which was located on what is now the south of the Newton Leys site, and Bletchley Works which was in the northwest corner of the development site, adjacent to the Oxford to Bletchley railway line. Jubilee Brickworks closed in 1978〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://edrms.milton-keynes.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00143750.pdf )〕 and has since been used as farming land for the adjacent Slad Farm. The lake formed by clay extraction at this site was used by anglers for many years and was known as Jubilee Pit〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mkaa.co.uk/326_jubi.asp )〕 The developer has since renamed it Willow Lake. Phase 1, 2 & 3 of the Newton Leys development is in this part of the site. Bletchley Brickworks closed in September 1990〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://edrms.milton-keynes.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00143750.pdf )〕 and was planned to be used as landfill, initially by London Brick Landfill, a division of the brickmaking company which owned the site, and was subsequently bought out by Shanks & McEwan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Stewartby/LondonBrickCompany.aspx )〕 Permission was granted in 2002, and the landfill site has been operated since 2004 by FCC Environment. The original claypits (Fletton Pit, Water Eaton Pit) for the Bletchley Works closed in 1970 and have since become the Blue Lagoon Local Nature Reserve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newtonleys.org.uk/history.html )〕 In 1991, a plans to develop the unused parts of the brickworks and the adjoining farmland they owned at Slad Farm were created by The London Brick Company with input from Aylesbury Vale District Council, Buckinghamshire County Council, Milton Keynes Council, and Milton Keynes Development Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAA5ADcANAAwAHwAfABUAHIAdQBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0 )〕 Outline planning permission was granted in June 2006, and development is expected to be complete by 2021.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/assets/attach/14954/FINAL_Core_Strategy_Adopted_July_2013_low_res.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newton Leys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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