Lib Dems pressing for energy efficient street lighting
The County Council has secured £57m in Government funding for a Private Finance Initiative scheme to replace and improve 44,000 exisitng street lights across Cambridgeshire which have reached the end of their design life. The Liberal Democrats are pressing for this to be done in the most energy efficient way.
The original proposals paid little regard to climate change. They assumed the number of street lights would increase, and that they would as at present burn all night. We have been pressing for a stringent review of the number of street lights, with lights being removed where they are not needed, and intelligent systems to dim or switch off the street lights at times (such as the middle of the night) when they are not needed.
The kind of careful approach to street lighting which we are proposing will not only reduce carbon emissions and reduce electricity costs; it will also make it easier to see the stars at night.
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