Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Strategic Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
David Powell
Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
  If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
 
 
 
Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543         
 
Fax / Ffacs:  01597 82 6215      
 
Email/Llythyru electronig:
  [1][Powys County Council request email]

Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2018-0089

Date / Dyddiad:   25/01/18

 

 

Request Accepted

 

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

Reference No: F2018/0089

 

Dear Ms Burrows

 

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
24/01/2018, in which you requested details of the following:

 

Street Lighting       

 

The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.

 

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

 

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

 

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

 

The due date for responding to this request for information is 21/02/2018.

 

Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

Carl Bryden

 

Information Compliance Officer

 

 

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Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Strategic Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
David Powell
Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
  If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
 
 
 
Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543         
 
Fax / Ffacs:  01597 82 6215      

Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][Powys County Council request email]

Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2018-0089

Date / Dyddiad:   16/02/2018

 

Reference No: F2018-0089

 

 

Dear Ms. Burrows

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 24/01/2018 concerning
Street Lighting

 

This is to inform you that your request has been considered and I can
provide the following response:

 

The Request:

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to enquire the
following information relating to the installation and maintenance of
street lights.

 

I would like to request:

 

1.    Has the council installed any energy efficient street lighting in
the last five years, such as replacing halogen bulbs with LED street
lights?

 

Yes - energy efficient LED Lanterns.

 

2.    If the council is in the process of installing any energy efficient
street lighting, please confirm when the council started to do this and
provide an estimate of when the council expects to have switched all
street lights to energy efficient street lighting.

 

The Council has been replacing broken lanterns with LED Lanterns for a
number of years and a specific programme to convert existing lanterns to
LED lanterns commenced in Nov 2016 and has converted approx. 4500no.
street lights with energy efficient LED Lanterns to date.

 

 

3. How much did the council spend on running, installing and maintaining
street lighting under the council’s jurisdiction in 2015, 2016 and 2017? 

 

Maintenance works:

Financial Year 2015/16 -  £773,365.73

Financial Year 2016/17 -  £622,185.82

Financial Year 201/718 – £519,345 (forecast estimate for the financial
year)

 

LED Installation – capital project

Financial Year 2015/16 -   £41,302.62

Financial Year 2016/17 -  £492,503.38

Financial Year 201/718 – £ 626,549.58 (payments to end of Jan 2018)

 

4. How much does the council estimate they will spend on running,
installing and maintaining street lighting under the council’s
jurisdiction in 2018? 

 

Financial Year £507,650

 

 

5. How many complaints were received in relation to new energy efficient
street lighting, if any, during 2017? 

 

No formal complaints received

 

6. Please estimate how much money the council currently saves following
the installation of any energy efficient street lighting on a monthly and
annual basis?

 

            £185,000 per financial year

 

We believe that this request is now complete and shall be closed
immediately. Should any further information be requested regarding this
topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Compliance Team

 

 

The supply of documents under Freedom of Information does not give the
person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright.

 

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example, by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public
will require the permission of the copyright owner.

 

The copyright of most of the information that we provide in response to
Freedom of Information Act requests will be owned by Powys County Council.
The copyright in other information may be owned by another person or
organisation, as indicated in the information itself.

 

For HMSO Guidance Notes on a range of copyright issues, see the Office of
Public Sector Information(OPSI) website.

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If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received in relation to
your request and wish to make a complaint, please contact Information
Compliance. Our complaints procedure is available on request or on our
website.

 

If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to
the Information Commissioner, who is the statutory regulator. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

2nd floor

Churchill House

Churchill way

Cardiff

CF10 2HH

Tel: 029 2067 8400

Email: [3][email address]

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