Street Lights Changed to LED

As from 2nd January 2025 , Balfour Beatty will commence work on a county-wide LED replacement programme throughout Cambridgeshire.

This project represents a significant investment by Cambridgeshire County Council, with the intention of saving approximately 70% electricity consumption and carbon emissions, We will be replacing over 47,000 existing streetlights with new LED lights over 2 years, so approximately 2,000 lights will be replaced each month.

In general, you can expect the LEDs to be of equivalent brightness to the existing lights. We have carefully selected products to effectively light the road network to the required lighting standards. In Cambridgeshire, no specific lighting levels are required to be met for residential roads, so the new LEDs will as closely as possibly replicate the distribution of the existing lights. On traffic routes, the expectation is that the roads will appear to be better illuminated, however due to the way LEDs work and some innovative design work, the lights themselves should not appear to be any brighter, and in some cases may be less bright. I have attached a link below to our website where all information regarding the project can be found.

 

Planned Maintenance Areas 2023 | Lighting Cambridgeshire

 

While these works may not be favourable to all residents, we can only apologise for any inconvenience caused.