Skegness Street Lighting Schedule - Find a freedom of information request

Request

I have recently heard that the County Council has offered to return street lighting in Skegness to its
previous schedule for £400,000 for twenty years – but without a formal contract to make this a legal
obligation on your Council. Whatever the case I wish to ascertain what formal or informal offers have
been made by the County Council to anyone about this matter.


Any formal or informal offers made by the County Council or its agents to restore the hours of street
lighting in Skegness to the previous schedule immediately before the latest cuts.

Please respond to whichever one of the following questions you find it most convenient to reply to
with regard to the matters set out above. You need not respond to both questions.


1. Please send me a summary information about these matters that may be brief but should cover
all points raised.


2. (Alternatively) – Please send me copies of all the records you possess (information held on
computers, in emails and in printed or handwritten documents as well as images, video and audio
recordings) about these matters.

Decision

1. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) have publicised that communities may, through their local Parish or
Town Council or equivalent, pay a one-off cost of £150 per light for them to be converted to all-night
operation as part of routine maintenance, or £300 if done outside of routine maintenance.


LCC have supplied information regarding the numbers of streetlights in Skegness to the Town
Council, with calculations to give a total cost (based on the above figures) if these were all converted
to all-night operation. LCC have not supplied a figure of £400,000.
As LCC have not received a request from Skegness Town Council or any other authority to convert
lights to all night operation, we have not made any offer (formal or informal) to do so, beyond the
generic offer made to all authorities in the County.


2. Not Applicable.

Reference number
FOI0876
Date request received
20 November 2019
Date of decision
03 December 2019