More than half the councils contacted were scaling back street lighting
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Newsnight contacted 75 councils in England and Wales and asked if they were scaling back street lighting. Of those we spoke to 32 said they were turning off some lights, nine were opting for dimming lights, 14 were considering changes while 20 had no plans to alter levels of street lighting. Below is a full breakdown of the councils we contacted.
COUNCILS TURNING OFF SOME STREET LIGHTS
Dorset Southwark Suffolk Buckinghamshire North Somerset and Bristol Nottinghamshire Powys Gloucestershire Bath and North East Somerset Peterborough City Council Shropshire Devon Rutland County Telford and Wrekin Leicestershire Stockton-on-Tees Borough South Gloucestershire Bridgend Blaenau Gwent Conwy Pembrokeshire Isle of Anglesey Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Newport Torfaen Durham Central Bedfordshire Borough of Poole Cornwall East Sussex West Sussex
COUNCILS DIMMING SOME STREET LIGHTS
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Nottingham City Council Plymouth City Council Slough Borough Southampton City Council Monmouthshire Hampshire Lincolnshire Surrey
COUNCILS CONSIDERING SWITCHING OFF/DIMMING LIGHTS
North Lincolnshire North Yorkshire Swindon Borough Southend-on-Sea Borough Brent Neath Port Talbot County Borough Cardiff Gwynedd Derbyshire Kent Hertfordshire Worcestershire Oxfordshire Warwickshire
COUNCILS NOT PLANNING CHANGES TO STREET LIGHTING
Northumberland Portsmouth City Council Reading Borough Barking and Dagenham Stoke-on-Trent City Council Luton Conwy Denbighshire Milton Keynes Isle of Wight Blackpool Borough Halton Medway City of York East Riding North East Lincolnshire Lancashire Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire Cumbria Staffordshire
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