Part Night Lighting Scheme – Progress update from Herts County Council
The conversion of Hertfordshire County Council owned street lights in St Albans district to part-night operation commenced on 1st March 2012. By 16th March just over 4,000 of the district’s lights had been converted. The conversion target for the district is 9,928 units or approximately 75% of HCC lights in the district.
During the period 1-16th March works progress by division was as per the table below. Works have yet to commence in the other four divisions.
51 Sandridge 96%
43 Harpenden North East 93%
48 St Albans Rural 87%
50 St Stephen’s 82%
49 St Albans South 30%
46 St Albans East 22%
Current status
Over the period 19th-22nd March a fault associated with the Spring move to British Summer Time became manifest. The fault caused each of the converted lights to miss one operation and resulted in one evening in the four night period to go without lighting from dusk to midnight.
Re-commencement of the St Albans implementation relies on the re-supply of the corrected control units from the manufacturer. The new components are being supplied from today (13 April) and implementation works will recommence next week. We have yet to receive input from our installation contractor as to the revised works completion date but, until further notice, we presume substantive completion of St Albans works is now mid-late June; however there will be pressure to conclude the works sooner.
Hi Chris
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It is estimated that it costs over £500 million to power the United Kingdom’s 7.5 million street lights each year. Local Authorities throughout the country have been switching off and dimming street lights at night time in order to save costs.
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