Street Lighting and Signs

The Council has over 36,000 street lighting units to maintain. We inspect for correct operation at night every two weeks during winter and every four weeks in summer.

All new and replacement street lights in estates and side roads use white light which offers better colour identification and has been proven to reduce crime and fear of crime. This form of lighting is also very efficient and is helping to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. All the energy used by street lighting and sign lights is from renewable sources such as wind farms.

We also maintain iover 3,500 illuminated and unlit road signs, road markings, street furniture such as highway seats, barriers, street name plates, traffic signals and other highway equipment.

• Traffic signal failures are attended to within 1 hour, and single bulb failures within 24 hours, on working days.

• Reported street lighting faults reported are repaired within 3 working days, providing the fault is not due to a supply failure.

Contact us to make a report or enquiry.

Last update: 29/03/2012