Southwark has a great street lighting team. They’ve very patiently walked all the streets of East Dulwich late at night explaining what we have technology and options for upgrading it. It helped me fulfil a 2006 election pledge in 2010 to make all East Dulwich have universal modern street lighting. It took five years of concerted effort to make this happen.

I remember trying to deliver named letters to residents before then and frankly it was near impossible on some streets to read the print.

The latest progress on the borough wide street lighting improvements is that electricity demand is still declining from efficiency saving while getting better more modern replacements. But with electricity price rises the overall bill has stayed flat at around £1M pa.

But Southwark still has 61 different types of street lights making up 36,821 different assets.

If you have any thoughts about street lighting please do get in touch…