Tory Council Stop New Street lights in Biggin Hill

9.59.45pm GMT Fri 27th Jan 2006

Plans to replace ageing street lights in Biggin Hill over the next 5 years have been cancelled by Bromley Conservative Councillors. Street lights are meant to bereplaced every 40 years;but under new funding by the Council it is only possible to replace them every 53 years.

At the meeting of the Tory Executive Councillor for the Environment, a Councillor from Beckenham, decided to stop new street lights in most roads in Biggin Hill, which were originally in the five year plan for 2007/8 and to put them back to 2010/11. Lib Dem Councillor, Bob Shekyls said: "Once again Biggin Hill loses out on safer and better lighting".The experts say life expectancy of a street light is 30 to 40 years,but as,Lib Dem Councillor Geoff Gostt says, "Conservative Councillors seem willing to risk allowing the posts becoming dangerous and plunging local residents into darkness rather than sort the black holes in their finances".