Going back to the streetlighting issue, The County Council has proposed that lights in areas meeting the following exception criteria will continue to be lit throughout the night. This amounts to around 30% of streetlights:
The criteria are
? Sites where there are a large number of conflicting traffic movements eg roundabouts which are on significant routes (generally where light columns are 6m or more);
– Sites where lights have been installed as a result of accident remedial measures;
– Town Centres where there is one or more of the following features ? i) publicly maintained CCTV; ii)a high proportion of high security premises (eg banks,jewellers); iii) areas of high crime risk; iv)Areas where there is a high concentration of people at night e.g. Transport interchanges, nightclubs;
– Main approaches to town centres where there is a mix of development between residential and commercial/industrial;
– Sites where the police can demonstrate that there is likely to be an increase in crime; remote footpaths and alleys linking residential streets; where there is a statutory requirement to provide lighting.
On this basis , Chris, Ron and Bruce have between them asked for the following roads and locations to remain lit:
– The Hullbridge Road/ Hambro Hill / Downhall Road junction
– The Hullbridge Road/ Rawreth Lane/ junction
– The Carpenters Arms roundabout
– Downhall Park Way and Priory Chase
– The junction of Downhall Road and Teignmouth Drive (tight turn)
– The junction of Hambro Hill and Hambro Avenue (very tight turn in excess of 90 degrees , conflicting traffic movements)
– Rawreth Lane, including the junction with the A1245
– London Road , Rayleigh
– London Road , Rawreth
– Hambro Hill,
– Hullbridge Road
– In the alley linking Eastview Drive and the Hullbridge Road/ Hambro Hill / Downhall Road junction
We now wait to see if the County Council will agree to keep the lights on here. We don’t claim it is a perfect list, but it is probably the most extensive list put forward by any set of ward councilors in the district! If you feel that we’ve asked for too many roads to be lit, well more lights can be turned off later. (and other lights can be turned on again if there is a proven need).
I think the walk way from Deepdene through to Downhall Park Way has been left off. Can it be added.
Why is Priory Chase on here? The Priory Chase/Temple Way roundabout is not a roundabout that has a large number of conflicting traffic, especially not during the hours of midnight and 5am, when ASDA is shut, the school is closed and the Leisure Centre is shut. I have said in the past that this area is over illuminated, and see no justifiable reason why this area should remain lit. Even the previous antisocial behaviour seems to be a thing of the past, and that was never an issue past midnight anyway.
Has any consideration been given on just how much traffic is actually on these roads between midnight and 5am? Certainly in my experience of driving along Rawreth Lane in the wee small hours, there is precious little on the road!
Bruce, I believe the county will illuminate alleys anyway. (but I’m not sure – we still haven’t seen their provisional map for this.
Cjav, I appreciate your point, and you may well be right. However bearing in mind some problems that have happened in the past, I wanted to err on the side of caution here. If it isn’t needed, then County will be happy to turn the lights off. It would be a lot harder to go the other way