Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
LED street lights coming to Haringey?
I noticed this on Lynne Featherstone's website yesterday:
"The Haringey Liberal Democrats, for instance, have put together a fully-costed plan to replace Haringey’s old street lighting with new energy efficient LED street lights.
As well as reducing the Council’s electricity bills and helping the environment through lower electricity usage, the new lights will help to reduce crime and the fear of crime by making our streets brighter at night."
It may have passed me by had I not watched the BBC London News the previous evening, where I saw this report.
I applaud forward thinking in energy and cost saving, but I just hope that the relevant tests are done to ensure we don't end up with an unhappy situation if it all goes ahead.
This is in no way a political post. Just thought it interesting :)
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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The light isn't as nice outdoors, no warmth but the councils could add a slight filter.
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Permalink Reply by phippsofacto on
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As long as it's not like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind outside your window I am all for it!
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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Please do watch that video phippsofacto links to - bit.ly/1stnrQt. I don't often get to watch the news but happened to yesterday and saw that clip, these LED lights sound horrible for residents near street lamps and that council doesn't seem to care much.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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I saw the news report about these too, afraid it seemed pretty grim if you happened to have one outside your window.
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Permalink Reply by Lydia R on
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I was passing Rhodes Avenue School on Durnsford Road in February and saw a damaged belisha beacon.
The amber globe was broken, revealing that the thing was using an ordinary incandescent bulb. I couldn't believe it--can you imagine the energy that thing has been wasting--it is on all day. I took a photo of it which I hope uploads successfully.
I know that LEDs can be harsh but there is no doubting they save energy and some way of softening/masking them will have to be developed. However maybe we should first look at how many incandescent bulbs are still in use, hidden away in bollards and belisha beacons and other unexposed public lighting throughout the borough. I am sure we could make huge energy savings by replacing these, even if we do nothing else.
Lydia Rivlin — so nauseated by vote rigging in the wards, venality in the Council, shenanigans in the Planning Department and disorganisation in the Social Services, that I signed up to fight it all by becoming a Conservative candidate in the May elections. One thing about the Tories—they haven’t been corrupted by power round here.
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Maybe I should have said, "This is not starting as a political post!"
What people choose to do with it is up to them, but I will deny ay involvement due to my links to the Monster Raving Loony Party.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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I don't like those light posts they hurt my eyes
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Amusing to read that Haringey libdems, who want more short car journeys to local shops, want to 'help the environment'.
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Permalink Reply by Seema Chandwani on
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These are already starting to be installed around streets in Tottenham....! It could be a pilot.
I'm not sure of the roads I saw them on, it was off Philip Lane.
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A bit of coloured plastic sheet wrapped around an offending light can dampen the horrible white glare. It's all I think about when I turn my new garden light on, it's all we'll be thinking about soon when they turn the 'lamp posts' on.
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Yes, you are right. They've been installed in Morrison Ave, Broadwater rd and a few other streets around this part of Tottenham.
There were a few complaints about the brightness and the haphazard way in which this was done. The lamp posts were not necessarily installed in a similar line in the pavement i.e a consistent distance from the kerb, so the place is even more helter skelter dishevelled than before, despite the new street furniture. Also,we don't know why some streets were done and not others e.g Morrison and Napier but not Loxwood which is between these two and which has 3 different types of lamp post on it, including concrete ones!!! Just seems so typically inept of our Haringey Council! Especially when we commented and they came up with the ever usual cock and bull story to explain their ongoing incompetence!
So I have a LED street light directly outside my house which is good -it is very much brighter and I will no longer need to install a porch light. But I have had thermal black out blinds since I moved in.
The design of the street lamps here seem to be more traditional than those in the video.
So the lib dems seem to be a step behind. Are they not aware of what is going on in Haringey? Where they could win people over is by proposing a radical overhaul in the way the services are run so that refuse is collected every week, make small wheelie bins the default option so our streets don't look like rubbish depots. They could also do something about the very appalling state of all the pavements in this neck of the woods and the general lack of street cleaning and enforcement. Promise to ensure that monies go into services and not propaganda, etc....
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The lights on those roads did feel "different", I am not sure whether it was the sudden change when you turned the corner.
I will pay more attention next time I'm up there to look at for the rest of what you described.
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