Advice on lighting in Carmarthenshire
Public sector organisations and private businesses in Carmarthenshire are being urged to follow in the council’s footsteps and switch off any unnecessary lighting. Work is underway to switch off a third of the county’s street lights between 12.30am and 5.30am. One in three lights is being switched off in residential areas and up to two in three on highway routes. A progress report went before the council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee explaining that work had already begun in the southern part of the county. So far a total of 1,162 lighting columns (out of a proposed 6,000) have been switched off in the Burry Port, Kidwelly and Pontyberem areas. Llanelli town is to be completed by August. Councillors were pleased to hear that although there have been quite a few queries on the scheme, there had been no major complaints from the public. The aim of the part-night lighting scheme is to reduce the council’s carbon footprint and save on energy costs. Once it is rolled out across the count...