Issue - meetings

This report presents a Sustainable Street Lighting Strategy for approval.

RESOLVED:(i) That a decision on the proposed Sustainable Street Lighting Strategy be deferred for 4 weeks so that proposals could be brought forward to amend the action plan as follows:

a)     To action 4, to commit the Council to switching to a metered electricity supply;

b)     To action 11, to require all new luminaires to be fitted with switching mechanisms capable of varying energy levels to the bulb;

c)      To action 13, to require trials to be conducted to evaluate different methods of varying power to street lights;

                        (ii) That information also be included in the report on the lighting scheme for the Moor Lane Roundabout.

REASON:To strengthen the action plan and provide further details relating to the lighting scheme for the Moor Lane Roundabout.

Members received a report which presented a Sustainable Street Lighting Strategy for approval.

The proposed Strategy, which was attached at Annex A of the report, had been prepared to ensure that the effects of street lighting were minimised in terms of the use of natural resources for the supply of equipment and services, the use of energy to power the lights and the light pollution produced.  It set out, in a series of policy statements, the way in which the Council would deliver a sustainable street lighting service.  An Action Plan was included which covered:

·  Procurement of services and energy;

·  Asset management;

·  Waste management;

·  Design and installation of new lighting schemes;

·  Consideration and use of new technology;

·  Seeking improvement in Supplementary Planning Guidance to incorporate sustainable street lighting where possible;

·  Investigating new sources of funding.

Members had the option to approve, amend or reject the proposed Strategy in its current form.

In relation to the comments raised under Public Participation (minute 55 refers), officers advised that the lighting for the Moor Lane Roundabout had been designed in accordance with the proposed Strategy.

Members proposed to defer making a decision on the proposed Strategy to allow for further work to take place to strengthen the action plan.

Having considered the advice of the Shadow Executive, it was

RESOLVED:(i) That a decision on the proposed Sustainable Street Lighting Strategy be deferred for 4 weeks so that proposals could be brought forward to amend the action plan as follows:

a)     To action 4, to commit the Council to switching to a metered electricity supply;

b)     To action 11, to require all new luminaires to be fitted with switching mechanisms capable of varying energy levels to the bulb;

c)      To action 13, to require trials to be conducted to evaluate different methods of varying power to street lights;

                        (ii) That information also be included in the report on the lighting scheme for the Moor Lane Roundabout.

REASON:To strengthen the action plan and provide further details relating to the lighting scheme for the Moor Lane Roundabout.