Liverpool names winners for £780m of highways work19/09/2025 Liverpool City Council has awarded two highways’ contracts with a total value of £780m. |
Lincolnshire £12m street lights framework hits enquiry deadline after extension29/07/2025 A legal query has seen North East Lincolnshire Borough Council and North Lincolnshire Council extend the enquiry deadline for their £12m street lighting maintenance framework. |
Milestone scoops £13.5m lighting deal16/09/2024 Milestone Infrastructure has started work on a new £13.5m contract to maintain and deliver street lighting across Gloucestershire on behalf of the county council. |
Public advised to use ‘personal lighting’ amid streetlight cuts26/06/2024 A council in the outer Hebrides has advised people to consider using ‘personal lighting’ after announcing it would switch off streetlights earlier. |
Cheshire council cuts could cut carbon18/07/2023 Cheshire East Council is set to cut back on street lighting and hike parking charges to achieve what it says are essential ‘savings’. |
Amey scores new Scottish success with lighting deal19/08/2021 Amey has secured a new three-year contract with East Renfrewshire Council to upgrade, maintain and repair street lights for the authority. |
Surrey looks to future with £20m LED conversion29/10/2020 Surrey County Council is to convert all of its 89,000 street lights to LEDs over the next three years at a cost of £20m. |
Amey scoops £35m Bradford street lights deal13/08/2020 Bradford Metropolitan District Council has awarded Amey a contract worth around £35m over four years to upgrade its street lighting and help it develop as a smart city. |
Part-night lighting would help moths, scientists say24/01/2019 Switching off street lights for part of the night would help moths and other nocturnal pollinators, new research has found. |
Part-night lighting would help moths, scientists say24/01/2019 Switching off street lights for part of the night would help moths and other nocturnal pollinators, new research has found. |
Bedford carries out £6.3m LED lighting upgrade06/09/2018 Bedford Borough Council has all but completed a £6.3m project to replace its highway streetlights with LED lanterns. |
Council forced to deny street light cancer rumour10/04/2018 Gateshead Council has been forced to hit back at a conspiracy theory which claims it is carrying out secret Government trials using its street lights. |
Public Health England issues LED street lighting warning03/04/2018 Public Health England has warned that high levels of blue light in LED street lighting can be uncomfortable and are 'known to cause damage to the retina’. |
McCann to carry out £6.5m Hillingdon street light upgrade19/01/2017 McCann will replace and maintain street lighting in London’s second largest borough, Hillingdon, after being awarded a £6.5 million contract. |
LED upgrade for Cheshire West and Chester17/01/2017 More than 24,000 street lights will be upgraded in Cheshire West and Chester at a cost of £5 million. |
Worcestershire makes bids for extra highways funding11/03/2015 Worcestershire County Council has submitted two bids that could result in almost £20 million of improvements to the county’s roads and street lighting. |
Lighting software helps Gloucestershire Council23/09/2014 Gloucestershire County Council is using software from Yotta to help with the management of its street lighting. |
Wireless street light control system goes live in Essex07/05/2014 A wireless street lighting control system is now fully operational across the county of Essex. |
Ringway contract for Milton Keynes launched28/04/2014 Ringway has started work on a seven year highways contract for Milton Keynes Council. |
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. |
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