Wiltshire proposes to extend part night lighting.Well my village has it, as do several A roads in the county. In Swindon (unitary council and not controlled by Wilts despite being in Wilts) it was planned to do the same, and then was reversed after “protests”.
Of course, the council spokesman has missed the point again:
"We believe significant savings can be made by switching to efficient LED lighting and we have previously proposed this but it was turned down.
"Much of financial and carbon savings proposed by the council could be achieved this way."
Well it was quite right to turn LED conversion down. Yes LED will save some carbon compared to the existing lighting, but the greatest carbon saving is by turning the lighting off in the first place.
And while energy costs will be lower by conversion to LED, you have to take into the account the cost of buying and fitting those LED lanterns. Which as I proved with the case of Bath in the SW thread a few weeks ago, the cost of the lanterns far outweighed the energy costs saved - It would take Bath 57 years to recoup the investment.