‘The council should be setting an example’: Cambourne’s experiment with the four-day week

Darren and Tash Hudson-Stryder say the four-day week trial will help to retain staff in the public sector. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

On a sunny afternoon in leafy Cambourne, the largest town in south Cambridgeshire, the streets are relatively empty with the exception of the occasional dog walker or parent pushing a pram.

But this quiet town with its newly built homes has become the centre of a clash between the local South Cambridgeshire district council and a government minister.