Decision details

Kent County Council is one of the largest lighting authorities in the UK and has 118,000 street lights and some 25,000 lit signs and bollards. The current annual cost of illuminating and maintaining the stock is over £9m, a cost that keeps rising.

Due to changes in technology, KCC has been able to award a new contract to Bouygues E & S Infrastructure to convert all its street lights to Light Emitting Diode (LED) products which alongside a new Central Management System has provided an opportunity to review the current street-lighting policy

The Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport has agreed to make changes the Street Lighting Policy,including the introduction of optimised all night lighting as new LED streetlights are installed and commissioned on the Central Management System (CMS).