Balfour Beatty employees begin installing LED lighting in Hereford. The new lights will be dimmed through the early hours to save money.
WORK started this week on the latest installation of new low-energy street lighting along the county’s roads.
The £5.5 million phase was rolled out in Whitecross, Hereford, and will be completed county-wide over the coming months.
Herefordshire Council’s public realm contractor, Balfour Beatty Living Places, is replacing all 9,000 street lights with LEDs in a project expected to save the council £13.3 million over the next 20 years.
The project is described as the county’s biggest carbon reduction project yet.
A third of Herefordshire’s street lights have already been replaced, at a cost of £1.5 million.
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