Modern Woburn Sands
Modern Woburn Sands contains many amenities, details of which are available on a local website. It is also a reasonably well-known (but under-publicised) mountain biking destination, with car-parks at the top of Church Road.
Woburn Sands railway station, which serves the town, is located on the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale Line but the service is currently only hourly in both directions, and that only from about 7:00 am until 7:00 pm. Plans were announced in July 2012 for the electrification of the line forming part of a new electrified 'spine' linking Southampton to Sheffield. A reasonably fast (35 mins. to 1 hour) mainline service is available from Milton Keynes Central to London Euston. Alternatively, the First Capital Connect service from Flitwick runs to St. Pancras.
Although its population is small for a town (2,246 according to the 2001 census), many inhabitants still refer to it as a village, but the civil parish council has officially declared it a town. Its population and consequently its housing stock continue to grow with the development of the brownfield site (former Nampak/Plysu Plastics factory)- now known as Parklands. Plans for further expansion contained in the 2005 South East Plan were revised in 2010 and there are no plans contained within the Milton Keynes Core Strategy for any further development in the Parish. All undeveloped land retains the planning status of 'open countryside' with the presumption against development. Modern Woburn Sands is a very lively place with the schools Swallowfield lower school and Fulbrook Middle School Academy, also the new Taylor Wimpey estate. There is a lot of children in the area.
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