Brighter streets for Lambeth

Lambeth lighting - good work selected as example of best practice

The installation phase of Lambeth's successful private finance initiative (PFI) street lighting project has been completed six months ahead of schedule and it will now be inspected as an example of best practice to other boroughs.

The successful PFI partnership with Lambeth Lighting Services has been in place since 2005 to update, renew and maintain the borough's street lighting. Lambeth Lighting has delivered a high quality service to create cleaner, greener, brighter and safer streets and parks across the borough, and this inspection is an important acknowledgement of its successful work to date.

Not many large public/private contracts have been evaluated at this stage. The inspectors are keen to look at the benefits of joint working with a private sector partner.

The renewal and upgrading of street lights improves the environment for Lambeth residents by:

• enabling night time collection of refuse and street cleaning which allows the council to deliver a cleaner borough
• providing more effective public lighting at lower levels of energy consumption in line with the council's carbon reduction commitment
• creating a safer environment in the borough's parks and streets with new and improved lighting helping to reduce crime, road traffic and personal injury accidents
• enabling the quick repair and replacement of damaged lights by having the council's call centre number displayed on each lighting column.

Over 9,300 new columns have been installed in over 880 roads, 7,900 redundant columns have been removed and recycled, over 2,000 signs, beacons and bollards have been replaced and 10 parks have had their lighting upgraded.

The entire Lambeth Lighting PFI programme runs for 25 years and the next steps will focus on maintaining the new fixtures.

Find out more about the Lambeth Streetlighting PFI installation and maintenance programme.

For more information please contact Transport and Highways call centre on 020 7926 9000 or email. TandHCallCentre@lambeth.gov.uk.