Street Lighting turned off...

[Oscar Namechange]

The last few weeks I've had many an unhappy resident Insisting I ' Do something ' about the fact that all our street lighting has been turned off and will stay off.

I have tried explaining to people that they appear to be within their rights providing there Is no crime or little crime In that area after consulting police. Lighting remains In crime area's and elderly resident complex's.

Government has cut local councils budgets across the country by millions of £'s and It's a way of saving money. The only alternative Is an Increase In Council Tax.

Living In a private lane, I have had no street lighting at all since I moved here 15 years ago so I am not very sympathetic.

Do you believe we should do without It? Does It encourage crime?

[Oscar Namechange]

Switching off street lights in South Gloucestershire saves £90,000 a year | This is Bristol

[Snooz]

Is electricity really that expensive or are there additional costs involved? And how do they figure the carbon emissions? You guys still using gas lights over there or what?

[tude dog]

oscar;1432418 wrote: The last few weeks I've had many an unhappy resident Insisting I ' Do something ' about the fact that all our street lighting has been turned off and will stay off.

I have tried explaining to people that they appear to be within their rights providing there Is no crime or little crime In that area after consulting police. Lighting remains In crime area's and elderly resident complex's.

Government has cut local councils budgets across the country by millions of £'s and It's a way of saving money. The only alternative Is an Increase In Council Tax.

Living In a private lane, I have had no street lighting at all since I moved here 15 years ago so I am not very sympathetic.

Do you believe we should do without It? Does It encourage crime?


Lighting may make a thief take extra precautions, but never deter. Last place I lived we had lighting all over the place, big deal:-5.

I now live in a rural city with what I would call adequate street lighting.

To me lighting, like a fence a passive obstacle to crime.

[Scrat]

Lighting does play a role in crime prevention but at best a small one, a good thief will know what to do with lighting or not. I can see the cost savings as those lights use a lot of power, I'm quite sure they're not LEDs which are much more efficient. With regular light bulbs a lot of energy is wasted in the form of heat, LEDs do not have this problem. Maybe you can look into getting some of them installed.

[Oscar Namechange]

I have lived with no street lighting at all In my lane for 15 years. Prior I lived In a very small village In West Sussex where the entire village went without lighting after 11 pm.

The only ' crime ' so to speak In my lane Is occasionally teenagers would deal drugs under cover of the darkness and a quick getaway from police on their bikes across the field outside my house. I stopped that by getting the council to Install a kissing gate to the field and haven't had that since. The village I had lived In prior had no crime whatsoever.

While I can comprehend the apprehension elderly feel, I can't help but think some folk are never pleased. Those who complain the loudest at the lights being turned off are the one's who bitterly complain that they are being kept awake by other neighbours sensor beams and the floodlights when they are accidently left on In the school.

Having lived many years without lighting, I would say It does not Increase crime but that's not to say the apprehension that It will Is not real.

[Snowfire]

We have no street lighting at all in our village. Never has been. Pitch black and thats how we like it. Very few teenagers to speak of but nowhere after dark to hang out round here

[tude dog]

Thinking about it last place we lived street lights were on, working people asleep.

Wake up in the morning, get dressed proper for work, at best property been stolen. Maybe home broken into and you are raped, murdered or worse.

I am sorta ambivalent about city lights.

[tabby]

We don't have street lights and I haven't missed them.

[Oscar Namechange]

Thanks for your feed back.

I had a meeting with Councilors and they've basically said ' tough ', the lights go off or a raise In council tax.