Street Lighting
Click here for a list of Footway Lighting Under our Control
Please report faults using the form at the foot of this page.
The
Town Council is responsible for the maintenance of 643 footway lights in
Newport. Footway lights are designed to
light the footway but have the additional benefit of lighting some of the
highway, whereas highway lights are designed to light the highway but often
have the additional benefit of lighting footpaths.
Highway
lights are generally 8m tall (like those that line the high street) and footway
lights are generally 5m tall (those that are on housing estates).
Not
all footway lights in Newport are maintained by Newport Town Council, some are
maintained by Telford & Wrekin Council and some by the developer who
constructed recent housing estates. In
general, estates such as Beechfields, Daniels Cross and Deer Park have their
lighting maintained by Telford & Wrekin Council. Developments constructed
after about the year 2000 have not been adopted by the local authority and as
such the Smithfields and the New developments on Cheney Hill and Wellington
Road are the responsibility of the develop (or a residents association – if
there is one).
Of
the 641 footway lights that the Council maintains there are 619 that operate
using a photo electric cell (PEC) i.e. they turn themselves on when it begins
to get dark and off when it becomes lighter.
If the PEC fails then the default position is to leave the lamp burning
24 hours (that is why you might well see lights on during the day). The remaining 22 lights are operated by a
timer from dusk to dawn.
Not
all lights have the same bulbs in them and as such consume differing amounts of
electricity. Council officers
continually work with the contractor to replace bulbs with more energy
efficient bulbs as they become available on the market and cost effective.
The
Council has previously agreed to upgrade the lights on an opportunity basis to
LED, as they use less electric than a standard bulb and because an LED lamp
contains many small bulbs it is unlikely to completely fail. The investment is reducing electricity
consumption and providing some savings to the Council (albeit that may be not
necessarily always be in cash terms but in indexation).
Please use the form below to inform us of any faults or problems with Footway Lighting Under our Control.