Community: Eddington, Cambridge

In response to the extreme effects of growth in the city, the University of Cambridge is in the process of transforming 150 hectares of what was flat, inaccessible and somewhat featureless farmland into a new urban district in the north-west of the city.

Eddington, the first phase of the development, has prioritised housing to meet the housing supply shortage within the development with half of the 14,000 new homes being built for qualifying University and college staff.

What sets Eddington apart from many other commercially-led developments is Cambridge City Council’s insistence that the local centre is to be delivered first.