That's what happens on all the sideroads here in Norwich @Obelixx ... the streetlights go off from midnight/1am until 5 or 6am, depending on whether BST pertains. The streetlights remain on along bus routes.
It's saving the council tax payers money, and cutting down on light pollution ... and as far as I'm aware there has been no reported rise in anti-social behaviour/burglary etc in the years since this has happened. It's also much easier to keep the light levels down to a healthy level in our bedroom without having to purchase blackout blinds etc . Benefits all round as far as we can see.
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
The street lights go off here too at around midnight. Big outcry when it was first introduced but everyone has settled down now. If I want to see my garden at night I just turn on the light by the back door, have a look, go back indoors again. That light is actually to switch on before we go out if we know we're coming back in the dark - we always use the back door and it gets v.dark along the side, getting to it. OH trod on a hedgehog once! (It was OK - no harm done).
Carefully thought out and positioned garden lighting can create a magical effect, totally different from simply switching the back light on, shining a torch or viewing the garden in monochrome. Then again those without will not know what they are missing. And yes, light can be switched off.
I have one garden light, solar powered and carefully positioned to light up the trunk and branches of a beautiful albizzia julibrissin. It is magical but is switched off most days because there's no-one but us to see it and I don't want to disturb the nocturnal critters.
I have 3 more solar powered lights in the polytunnel but have never yet needed them so they are charged up but not switched on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Carefully thought out and positioned garden lighting can create a magical effect, totally different from simply switching the back light on, shining a torch or viewing the garden in monochrome. Then again those without will not know what they are missing. And yes, light can be switched off.
Exactly!
Everyone can have a dfferent opinion on this or any other topic on this board and people shouldn't be criticised for not having the same opinion as a responder.
I didn’t realise there would be controversial opinions in lighting, I’d not given it much thought. Having read all the posts, I will think carefully about lighting.
I didn’t realise there would be controversial opinions in lighting, I’d not given it much thought. Having read all the posts, I will think carefully about lighting.
So do I, as "the neighbours complain that the street lights dim when we turn ours on."
Not really, but I agree it's a bit pointless to have them on more than's really necessary.
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It's saving the council tax payers money, and cutting down on light pollution ... and as far as I'm aware there has been no reported rise in anti-social behaviour/burglary etc in the years since this has happened. It's also much easier to keep the light levels down to a healthy level in our bedroom without having to purchase blackout blinds etc . Benefits all round as far as we can see.
I have 3 more solar powered lights in the polytunnel but have never yet needed them so they are charged up but not switched on.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...