Street Lighting Policy

The Council has an adopted Climate Change Strategy (2016 - 2020) in place, which is part of the governments 'Emissions Reduction Pledge 2020' and publicly commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

• from SBC assets and operations by 21% on 2014/15 levels by March 2020
• from Stockton Borough by 18% on 2013 levels by 2020.

Street lighting has played a significant role in achieving some challenging emissions reductions, and following the fourth complete financial year of the implementation of the street lighting LED replacement programme, CO2e emissions from lighting assets has reduced by 24.6% in 2018, and have fallen by 76% since 2012.

Detail on the Council's response to climate change and emissions reduction can be found on the Climate, Carbon and Energy pages of the Council's website including our Strategy, action plans, annual reports of performance and advice and guidance.

LED lighting has a significantly lower environmental impact than conventional lighting, being more resource efficient, producing less heat, being highly energy efficient and having significantly lower harmful component parts, and this contributes to the Council's overall sustainability performance.