Calls to replace derelict and age expired street lighting stock were renewed at an Associate Parliamentary Lighting Group meeting in the House of Commons on 7 May.
Speakers David Webster of David Webster Contractors and Roger Elphick, chairman of the County Surveyors Society's Street Lighting Group and DTLR Lighting Board, both stated the urgent need to complete a full inventory of the street lighting in each local authority. Without this the government will not be able to allocate the appropriate funding for renovation.

The event highlighted the advanced state of disrepair of much of the UK's street lighting stock and posed a warning not to let it slide by revisiting the story of £3 million compensation awarded to the paralysed victim of a falling lamppost in Westminster, London.

Ian Holmes, attending from the DTLR, reiterated the government's awareness of the problem and confirmed that a better knowledge of the stock is required before real action can be taken.

Holmes also stated that with the gathering of such inventories and the government's Ten Year Plan – £31 billion dedicated to the repair and maintenance of roads, bridges and street lights – the problem could be better understood and acted upon.

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