Decision details

Approval to allow District and Borough Councils to request street lights to be excluded from Part Night Lighting and reimburse the County Council the associated costs that would be realised by switching them off.

RESOLVED:

1.         That the Cabinet approved the implementation of a mechanism (as detailed in paragraphs 16-19 of the submitted report) to allow District/Borough Councils to enhance the level of service and request all lights in their area be excluded from Part Night Lighting and to reimburse the County Council the full value of savings that would be realised by switching them off.

2.         That authority be delegated to the Head of Highways and Transport, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highways, to enter into specific agreements with requesting District or Borough Councils.

Reasons for Decisions

District and Borough Councils have their own budgets and across the County will have differing local priorities.  Enabling them to request lights be excluded from Part Night lighting allows them to respond to those differing priorities by enhancing the level of service provided over and above that delivered by the County Council.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Environment and Infrastructure Select Committee.]