Eddington: The 20-minute Neighbourhood

Our neighbourhoods should be thriving places where people want to live.
Eddington is a new development on the outskirts of Cambridge which has embraced the elements of a 20-minute neighbourhood.
The idea of a 20-minute neighbourhood is a place where people can easily and safely walk and cycle to most local amenities via a short, convenient, and pleasant 20-minute return walk.
In this video, we show an insight into Eddington and how it has been designed as a low-car community, centred around boosting quality of life for everyone.
You can read more on 20-minute neighbourhoods here: www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/...

[@kathrynmcmillan6771]

I think we need to be a bit more open minded about this. I lived somewhere when I bought my first house which had a lot of the amenities close by and honestly I LOVED it. Being able to walk to the doctors, the coffee shop, the supermarket ....it was wonderful and did make me really happy. I am not so keen on the lack of car parking space though. If you want to drive it should be made easier for you. Encouragement and compulsion are very different. Also if you are going to have public transport as the main option you had better make it FLAWLESS. The potential for abuse by the authorities is VERY real. Utopia is normally shortlived. It does feel that is could be used as a kind of camp of sorts under the right circumstances - that is a little frightening. No car. 20 minutes from all your needs. People would be awfully easy to control in this environment. Also I was thinking about the kids. They are stuck with their peers. What if they are being bullied? They literally have no alternatives to the single school. It is not that different to many small towns, just purpose built and with the unpleasant whiff of moral superiority. Most urban areas have most, if not all of these things close by. Do not forget that the residents are still very much consumers. Supermarket still needs stocking etc?? There is no hospital I assume so what about A&E?? Take a bus with your sick child? There are many things I admire, but all in all I think it has the potentiality for problems and abuse internally and externally.

[@xxwookey]

It's the opposite side of town to the hospital, but the bus goes straight there, so yes I presume the majority of residents would take the bus to get get their kid to the hospital. There is of course a health centre/GP right there so most of the time you'd just go there. I don't understand your fear about people being 'controlled'. Why are people with bikes easier to control than people with cars? It doesn't make any sense. And there are other schools not that far away (easy cycling distance) so you can go to a different school if you really want to. There are cars in Eddington - it's not devoid of them. Slightly too many if you ask me. So no problems with deliveries, bin-emptying etc (The bin system is amazing with no wheelie bins cluttering up the place). And you just use a car-club car if you want to go further afield. Visit it sometime - it is a pretty nice place, and the UK would be much improved if there were more developments like this.

[@martyfellow7698]

BAAAAAAAA ...said the sheep.

[@amandamcmartin3284]

Please read my post.

[@caronclarke9671]

You are right, it's about control. History repeating again, worst parts. Take care 😊

[@ih8hertz1]

It's control.. this will end in tears

[@bjt5654]

Control?!?.....I work at a very busy airport, its a 30 minute drive, will that mean I have to leave the job? And will it mean that particular airport can only employ those who live within a 15 minute walk?.....I can only imagine you are overthinking things.

[@AzderielBane]

Take your tin foil hat off!

[@miniveloman3642]

So can we share this information with the people who are planning and building right now?

[@hmull4882]

Brilliant for all the disabled residents then.

[@Paul-ei1hl]

Just like Runcorn ?

[@janjames2120]

So a 20 minute neighbourhood means you're a prisoner within that neighbourhood. You have to use the shops that they provide. Send your children to the school that is decided for you.. it's an absolute outrage.

[@pandoramoore3794]

No they are banking on your compliance to be accepting of how they are selling it you. Do you really think they have your best interests at heart. It's just the start.Luckily lots of people are awake and working against the "WEF" and "WHO" globally.

[@JM-ll2vv]

Wait what, who said you HAVE to use the shops?

[@vllad74]

Spot on! People don't realise they are turning themselves into prisoners completely voluntarily...

[@MsRainingDays]

Bud, no one stops you from going outside the neighborhood. The idea is that you have the option of finding the things you need in your neighbourhood. Get out of your bizarre internet bubble

[@emmabown9751]

I think parts of this idea is great but my gut tells me this is not about not having a car and building communities etc. Interesting I didn’t see a church there which is important to some people, where would they go on Sunday? (Yes I’m fully aware church is not the building it’s the people. But when you go you need a building as the weather is not great over here! 😂) My family lives all over the U.K. and we love to travel to fish on club waters which goes up to the Midlands. What will that mean for me and my family? I don’t see them? I get a ‘pass’ to see them but there will be a astronomical price to pay? I can’t go fishing anymore?

[@xxwookey]

Yes, no church in Eddington SFAIK, but these are university people so very few of them will want such a thing. And there are about 15 within a 12-min bike ride, in Cambridge and Girton. The community develops around the field centre and school. People still go to see their families - it's not a problem. No passes involved. Usually by train, club-car or car-hire. There are plenty of fishing spots not too far away so a lot of people cycle there.

[@pauldickson3455]

So what happens if I get a better payed job but its a 30min drive away?

[@an4189]

You drive there or get a train or bus. Can you point to anywhere in this video which says you cannot travel 30 minutes?

[@bjt5654]

Then you take the job.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

@@an4189 Uh... that's literally the point of "20-minute neighborhoods"

[@an4189]

@@grafzeppelin4069 no it isn’t. 20 minute neighbourhoods is a town planning concept, the fact it has become a conspiracy theory is hilarious

[@AzderielBane]

You drive?

[@wolfiesmith70]

well that's a propaganda film if ever i saw one,i bet all of those people don't drive

[@fc55pn1]

Feelings of déjà vu watching this modern day Soviet style Utopia being propagandized to us...What could possibly go wrong!

[@veed2539]

Exactly mate

[@Cheeky-fingers]

Are there jobs for everyone in this Utopia? Or are restricted to working in the coffee shop, supermarket or mowing the lawn on the green space?

[@xxwookey]

Yes, Cambridge has loads of jobs.

[@FJUH]

Utopia? They said at the start that it isn’t perfect so not utopia. Watch it before you comment!

[@rcjabroniyup4959]

Just wait until you can't leave...

[@bjt5654]

Does that mean I have to give up the job I hate that takes me hours to get to and from amongst all the traffic?

[@rcjabroniyup4959]

@@bjt5654 Nah you might be dead before then so I wouldn't worry too much. Fall in line take your shots and obey.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

@@bjt5654 How about you just move job opportunities out to the suburbs and rural areas instead of herding and forcing people into priso- I mean cities.

[@AzderielBane]

That's ok I wouldn't want to leave if there's only people like you to mix with.

[@Itz_Yuki122]

That's a fact ,your right every thing will be under big brother's thumb.

[@neilmunro6683]

Sounds Orwellian and not so clever control of people..When will restrictions on human movement come in?? and digital applications be applied to residents and visitors alike.. Now theirs a thought to ponder on... Lochness Scottish Highlands...

[@lynnmacleod5005]

I suspect these people don't understand rural living.

[@ashman167]

It is very Orwellan, it wont hit them, until it effects them. its a invisable prison.

[@AzderielBane]

Lochness isn't a city.

[@anthonye4575]

There’s

[@amandamcmartin3284]

It's already started in Oxford, people are getting hefty fines for leaving their zone, or driving their car. They have most of the roads blocked of with huge flower containers. The People in Oxford are going apeshit about it with the council. I've watched the videos.

[@samuelfoston4556]

The more I look into this the e more horrific it looks. How can any right minded individual or group think this is feasible or sustainable? It’s madness.

[@xxwookey]

@@christga100 Ye, the houses are expensive because a) this is Cambridge which is very expensive and b) it's a nice place to live, with convenient facilities, so housing is popular.

[@GreenJimll]

Looks nice - sort of reminds me of University Halls on a campus, And living in those is often one of he best times in our lives.

[@Itz_Yuki122]

You must have had a boring life .

[@longnamedude3947]

I hope this is sarcasm...

[@pandoramoore3794]

They are really pushing a creepy Stepford wives theme here arnt they...We get brainwashed into giving up cars giving up cash giving up our coal fires the list just goes on and on and we get more and more repressed!

[@klaudialucas1667]

How boring having to be stuck in 20 min cities. What a "positive "-not propaganda. How about if you cant walk or ride a bike.? A bit of a prison sentence.

[@AzderielBane]

Transportation still exists. This is about urban planning, not taking your transport away from you.