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PFI lighting scheme plan for Northamptonshire08/06/2011 Northamptonshire County Council’s cabinet will consider a proposal for a revised PFI scheme which, if given government approval, would see the county’s lighting stock replaced within five years. |
Lights to be removed from M111/08/2011 Motorway lighting is to be permanently removed from a section of the M1. |
Start for £6.3m motorway lighting job01/12/2011 A £6.3m Highways Agency project to renew motorway lighting along the M62 trans-Pennine route in West Yorkshire got underway this week. |
Motorway lights switch-off gathers pace22/03/2012 Motorway lighting will be permanently switched off at two sites in the South West of England to reduce carbon emissions and light pollution. |
£1m for streetlights in York12/04/2012 City of York Council and Amey are spending £1m on overhauling streetlights. |
Staffordshire in major street lighting revamp24/04/2012 Highways chiefs in Staffordshire have pledged not to introduce a blanket night time switch off of street lighting following a consultation with residents. |
Council saves £2m in lights switch-off21/05/2012 The highways department at Northamptonshire Council Council saved nearly £2m last year by switching off half of the street lights across the county. |
M6 lights switched-off permanently19/09/2012 Lighting on the M6 between junctions 15 and 16 near Stoke-on-Trent will be switched off from next Thursday. |
Work starts to replace stolen lighting cables07/12/2012 The Highways Agency will be replacing stolen street lighting cable in the verge between junctions 10 and 10a of the M6 from next week. |
Durham dims lights to save £1.3m13/12/2012 Street lights in County Durham are to be dimmed in an attempt to save the county council £1.3m a year. |
Software helps keep Peterborough’s street lighting costs down15/08/2013 Street lighting asset management software from Mayrise Systems is supporting Peterborough City Council with ambitious plans to minimise maintenance costs. |
Kennedy welcomes major funding boost23/10/2013 Transport Minister Danny Kennedy has secured over £40million in funding to help support road improvements and street lighting in Northern Ireland. |
Piggotts launches highways lighting division30/10/2013 Piggotts, best known for its Christmas lighting services across the UK, is moving into the highways sector. |
Street lights to be switched off in Kent17/12/2013 Seventy thousand street lights will be switched off overnight in Kent as the local authority switches to part-night lighting. |
Transport for London invests in lighting technology16/01/2014 Harvard Engineering has secured a contract with Transport for London (TfL) to install a wireless monitoring and control system for street lighting across the capital’s busiest roads. |
Ringway wins £200m highways deal23/01/2014 Milton Keynes Council has named Ringway as preferred bidder for its highways, street lighting and network term service contract that could be worth up to £200 million. |
Death prompts street lights switch-on plea19/01/2012 A petition to turn overnight street lighting back on in Clevedon has been handed to North Somerset Council. |
Night mapping system can track light pollution06/02/2014 A night mapping system that can be used as a tool for managing street lighting operations and maintenance is set to be trialled by aerial survey specialist Bluesky. |
Scottish town invests in lighting technology15/04/2014 Harvard Engineering has won a contract to install a wireless monitoring and control system for street and outdoor lighting in the largest planned new town in Scotland. |
Hertfordshire street light upgrade to be completed01/06/2015 Hertfordshire County Council will complete its rollout of LED lighting on A-roads in Hertsmere. |
Skanska starts LED lighting upgrade in Gloucestershire17/11/2015 Work to install 55,000 energy-saving LED street lights throughout Gloucestershire has started. |
Lumicom working with Cumbria CC on lighting project25/11/2015 Lumicom is working with Cumbria County Council to dispose and recycle street lanterns as part of a three-year lighting replacement project. |
Further LED lighting upgrade in Hertfordshire15/02/2016 Street lights on B, C and unclassified (residential) roads in Hertfordshire will be upgraded to LED technology. |
SPIE awarded Kingsway Tunnel upgrade project06/07/2016 SPIE UK has been awarded a £6.4 million contract to carry out a lighting and infrastructure upgrade project in the Kingsway Tunnel. |
TMP launches new Professional Services division01/08/2016 TMP has launched a new Professional Services division in an effort to help overstretched local authorities. |
Tarmac launches safety innovation22/08/2016 National Road Planing (NRP), Tarmac’s road planing contractor has developed a new lighting solution to highlight safety zones around planing machines. |
FM Conway lands three lighting contracts30/09/2016 FM Conway has been awarded a hat-trick of lighting contracts with three London boroughs, worth up to £13 million over the next five years. |
Monumental lighting 53% more efficient25/08/2017 Technology used for architectural ornamental lighting, such as monuments, have been adapted for use on the strategic road network in a national first. |
M4 lighting fix delay 'risks safety'11/11/2019 A member of the Welsh Assembly has raised safety concerns after it emerged that parts of a busy 10-mile section of the M4 could lack their usual lighting this winter. |
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