[5] Milton Keynes remains part of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire for the purposes of lieutenancy.

In its capacity as a county council it is a local education authority and is responsible for social services, libraries and waste disposal.

The council also appoints members to Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Authority and the Thames Valley Police and Crime Panel, both of which serve the borough.

The building dates from 1979 and was designed by architects Faulkner Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor.

[27] The building is sited very close to the moot mound (meeting place) of the Anglo-Saxon Sigelai (or Secklow) Hundred.

The second logo is more colourful than the previous version, and consists of the two letters M and K, representing Milton Keynes.

In recent years, the council has promoted the city as a test-bed for experimental urban technologies.

The most well-known of these is the Starship Technologies' (largely) autonomous delivery robots: Milton Keynes provided its world-first urban deployment of these units.

[31][32] In May 2017, the City Council approved plans to build an 18m (59ft)-high warehouse in Blakelands, with the warehouse (which was constructed in 2018) being criticised by local residents as "oppressive", and there were concerns about planning malpractice, including the lack of a noise barrier and the retention of trees and hedges.