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Streetlighting Energy Saving Consultation – will you be in the dark?

Cambridgeshire County Council are consulting on a part night lighting system for County Council owned streetlights in order to make further savings due to reduction in Central Government funding.  The scheme would increase the current period of streetlight dimming (8pm or 10pm until 6am) to all times, and would mean turning off  lighting not on main traffic routes between midnight and 6am.  Most of the columns identified for Impington are located in the King’s Meadow area of Impington

Click here to view the lights selected for dimming

Click here to view the lights selected for turning off at midnight

If you feel you would like to send us your comments on the proposal, Councillors reviewing the consultation can feed these into our response

 

4 comments on “Streetlighting Energy Saving Consultation – will you be in the dark?

  1. What a total and utter farce. Spend all that money installing nice new lights and then turn them off halfway through the night. The ones by where I live were turned on for the first time last night (9-9-15) and I thought how much safer the roads looked after dark. From a personal point of view, having been burgled last year, the new lights did increase the light onto my property and I loved it. I now read that they are to be turned off at midnight. Can anyone please explain the reason behind this and how much money will be saved against the cost of installing the new lights please.

  2. I applaud the initiative to reduce energy usage. In relation to the proposed lights selected for turning off on Kingsway (path) histon,I would like to request that at least some of the lights at the end joining Narrow lane remain switched on. This is a pedestrianised path,that is used to both access the houses on kingsway and as a cut through to clay street. Without any lighting, it would be impossible to see where you were going on this already uneven potholed path,and would also be very intimidating to use a long narrow alleyway in the dark. Whilst I fully support the switching off of most the lights in the report, the ones required to allow pedestrian paths to be used after midnight (when many people return from cambridge city) should be kept on.

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