Lighting and electrical design
The designs will be to current British Standards and regulations. Designs shall utilise efficient light sources and luminaires and use the minimum number of units to achieve the required illumination levels to minimise long term maintenance and energy costs.

General information on equipment Galvanised steel columns with low pressure sodium (SOX) lamps in pole top lanterns but high pressure sodium (SON) lamps and lanterns of other styles are permitted when required by British Standards in limited locations such as:-

• Town centres and areas of civic importance.
• Delineation of desirable pedestrian or cycle routes to assist in their separation from traffic and guide them to approved carriageway crossing points.
• Pedestrian footpaths through important amenity areas.
• To highlight specific traffic hazards such as pedestrian crossings and roundabouts.
• Within conservation areas to give emphasis to the most important parts.
• Where it is the most economic solution taking account of installation, maintenance and energy costs.

Standardisation of equipment
The variety of luminaires and columns within a District shall be restricted and only mass-produced equipment used or where aesthetic considerations are paramount only equipment incorporating mass-produced parts shall be used.

Light pollution
Luminaires should not emit more than 3% of light above the horizontal or where this is not possible only low pressure sodium (SOX) lamps should be used.

• The roads/footpaths to be lit must be maintainable as public highway, maintainable at the public's expense.
• The roads/footpaths must be a primary means of access.
• The installation is in accordance with this policy and forms a 'roadway' lighting system as defined in the Highways Act 1980: on A or B class roads or other roads in large villages and towns to the British Standard on other roads in small rural villages to 45m maximum spacing.
• Special schemes which may not fully meet the British Standard may be agreed for adoption in the key parts of conservation areas.

Provision of lighting at the expense of the County Council:

• For roundabouts
• Accident remedial measure
• Major schemes funded through the Local Transport Plan
• Minor schemes funded through match funding and the Area Joint Committees
• Minor schemes (<£4,000 each, supported by Members and/or other Councils) for unlit or inadequately lit sections of existing roads and footpaths within areas otherwise provided with lighting maintainable at the County Council's expense.

Operating hours
Dusk to dawn with photo-electric cell control.

Column positions
To minimise the risk of vehicular impact whilst maximising available footway width, all new and replacement columns will normally be sited at the rear of footways or verges close to the highway boundary.

If areas are very wide, columns may be sited at the rear of a kerb-side verge, or where a verge is behind a footway at the rear of the footway.

If the verge contains a row of trees, the columns may be sited on the line of trees, between them.

If underground obstructions or other site conditions make the foregoing impractical, the front of columns will be sited in the footway between 450mm and 800mm back from the kerb face. These distances are suggested in the urban design manual and the British Standard for road lighting.

Columns forming a scheme will not necessarily all be positioned equal distances from kerb lines.

Maintenance and scouting
Scouting is not required as the maintenance contract is of the end performance type.

Repairs 
To be completed within two weeks of notification by client staff. Electricity supply faults to be repaired by the Electricity Company within 14 days unless notified as urgent