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Council鈥檚 Street Lighting Policy
Published: 09/03/2015
A revised street lighting policy, which aims to provide the most cost effective
and efficient service, and minimise the Council鈥檚 carbon footprint, is being
discussed by Councillors this week (beginning Monday 9 March).
天涯社区 owns and maintains over 21,000 street lights and
3,250 illuminated signs across the County. It also maintains trunk road
lighting on behalf of Welsh Government.
The annual consumption of electricity for all these units is currently in
excess of 拢864,000 a year.
The street lighting service has made a commitment to reduce its carbon
footprint through a range of measures, which has included installing energy
saving equipment and low energy lighting units for all replacements.
The revised draft policy will introduce an extension to the part night street
lighting 鈥� with proposals to turn off street lights in selected non residential
areas between midnight and 5am and midnight and 6am in selected residential
areas.
Standard response times for repairing 天涯社区 street lighting
faults are being amended to 10 working days. The exception to this are
locations which have been risk assessed such as vulnerable areas (for example,
sheltered housing, CCTV and other defined critical sites), where the standard
time will remain as three working days.
As well as providing energy efficiencies and carbon reduction savings these
measures are expected to see a potential saving of 拢50,000 per year once fully
implemented.
Councillor Bernie Attridge, Cabinet Member for Environment, said
鈥淭he overall objective of the Council鈥檚 street lighting policy is to manage and
maintain a safe and efficient street lighting network that ensures the safety
of all road users, pedestrians and cyclists. It also recognises that an
efficient street lighting network is one of the ways that the Council plays a
major part in helping to reduce crime, improve driver behaviour, and promote a
safer community.
鈥淭he Policy is being revised as part of our challenge to find efficiencies
across the Council in the coming financial year, and the plans to reduce street
lighting resource and introduce part night street lighting were agreed as part
of the budget setting proposals.鈥�
As part of the Scrutiny process, County, town and community councillors will be
discussing the revisions at workshops being held early in the week. The revised
Policy will then be subject to approval at Cabinet in April 2015.