£14million Scheme To Replace East Riding’s Street Lights

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The future is getting brighter for the East Riding thanks to a £14million project to replace street lighting across the county.

The scheme is the largest East Riding of Yorkshire Council has ever undertaken and will see 9,000 brand new street lamp columns installed and 16,000 new lights fitted on streets, highways and footpaths by March 2019.

The four-year street light replacement programme began in May, and since then a team of 32 council staff and additional contractors have been busy across the East Riding.

This year alone the team will install around 3,000 metal columns in 192 streets across the East Riding, with a target of 300 new columns each month.

In Beverley,  the first phase of the programme began in the Beverley area between May and July, and will continue in October, November and January.

The council was successful in bidding for £6million of additional funding from the for the scheme. The project will be supplemented by £4million in funding from the council.

An additional £4million will be spent by the council on an energy reduction programme to replace the existing, traditional yellow and orange fittings with white, low energy lights.

Lighting will not be affected during the scheme and will switch on at normal times. Each new column will be fitted next to the old one. The old ones will then be removed after electrical engineers transfer the power to the new columns.

Not all columns will be replaced, only those over 30 years old.

Councillor , the council’s portfolio holder for planning, highways and transportation, said: “This programme is above and beyond anything the council has done before, but the columns are getting old and need to be replaced for safety reasons.

“The new white fittings will also improve lighting and help save energy.”



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  1. 14 million pounds to replace street lights yet they refuse to change a street light bulb in one street light in meadow rise Aldbrough as after 7 years they still have nor “”” adopted “”” the road …. despite collecting more than 57; 000 pounds in council tax from the residents of that cul de sac …. they are truly an appalling council who consistently waste millions of tax payers money ..!!!

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