Wintringham 2020
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -This podcast tells the stories behind a new community development in St Neots, Cambridgeshire: Wintringham.
Wintringham will be a thriving community with new homes and employment, supported by key facilities, services and amenities, set in dynamic and attractive spaces. Critically, the new community will be supported by public transport, safe links to the station and cyclepath/footway connections to get around the place and connect to neighbouring Loves Farm and St Neots.
Wintringham has been designed with interconnected green spaces where people can meet up and wildlife can flourish
This podcast is produced by Urban&Civic.
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Episodes
Working at Wintringham
March 13, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBAs well as being a great place to live, Wintringham’s going to be a great place to work too. Along with 2,800 new homes, there’ll be shops, services, parks and schools built along with office and light industrial spaces, creating jobs for the local community. We meet some of the people who live and work in the St Neots area as well as finding out how Wintringham is being shaped with the future of work in mind. To find out more and to sign up for news, visit wintringham.org Cont...
Connections
March 06, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBTraffic and travel is always a hot topic, and with even more homes being built in the St Neots area, it’s one that the Wintringham planners take very seriously. We hear about some of the bugbears of local residents as we take a ride with a local taxi driver and find out how smart planning hopes to create real, sustainable solutions for people well into the future. We find out how Wintringham, St Neots is being designed to make getting around safe and easy, with big benefits for h...
Ecology
February 28, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBWintringham, St Neots is in a unique location. Surrounded by countryside and the River Great Ouse Valley with the ancient Fens to the North, all providing areas of diverse wildlife habitat. Join us for a nature walk through the Wintringham site to find out how Urban&Civic are working closely with ecology experts to ensure that wildlife as well as people can thrive here. We also go down to the woods with the future pupils of the new Wintringham primary school as they excitedly take...
Archaeology
February 21, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBHave you ever thought about what secrets lie buried beneath your feet? Over the past few years all over Cambridgeshire, remarkable discoveries about the area’s previous residents have been made. Local resident Roxy and her son Lewis join archaeologists Clem and Tom at the Wintringham site to find out more about the astonishing finds of iron age settlements that have been made there. We journey back in time to find out what life might have been like for the pre-historic residents o...
Living at Wintringham
February 14, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBWhat’s it going to be like to live in Wintringham, St Neots? Join us on a whistlestop tour of the community as we find out from the local community why they love calling the area their home, meet the organiser at the famous St Neots Regatta and go on a tour of Alconbury Weald, another local Urban&Civic development, with one of its residents. To find out more and to sign up for news, visit wintringham.org Contributors Liz Davies, curator, St Neots Museum Dominie Clarke, Regatta ...
Introduction to Wintringham
January 20, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.1 MBIn 2020, the first residents will be opening the doors to their brand new homes at Wintringham, a groundbreaking new Cambridgeshire development just a short kite flight east of historic St Neots. Over the course of this series from Urban&Civic, we’ll meet communities, journey back in time, and explore nature, as we find out why Wintringham is going to be such a vibrant place to live, work, and call home! To find out more and to sign up for news, visit wintringham.org