Was going to send you a photo of The Point in W Bridgford but that scoundrels have started to turn their lights off! How inconsiderate.

A page with a link to the Law on Lights, and Light Polution.

If a premises affects your evryday life, and sleep, or produces excessive light pollution, there is a legal process for dealing with it. Under the 2005 Act.

There are no lights on motorways, or any other road that does not have a footpath (cars and cycles should have lights anyway by law).

Back to the UK.

A thing that was (many years ago) mentioned was that exterior lighting, should not point upwards, and infact street lights are designed not to ‘leak’, and uplighting was to be banned on new developments.

I lived next door to the NRA in Surrey, and their exterior lights were left on all the time to enable them to see any burglars, the problem is that they have no security, so when they had a break in, the burglars could see nice and clearly. Statistics have said that if the building is dark, then a torch, or light comming on is much more likely to be noticed by cctv, or security personell, this conflicts with the ‘secure by design’ policy on planning, which insists on lighting for personal security.

Anyway, when you have the site up and running, you need some serious publicity, so someone like Mark Thomas, might be worth a try as he likes decent causes.

I would like to Name Wembley Stadium, and Ascot, that have on a number of occasions been lit up, in the very small hours of the morning, and they are much bigger in size that one or two office blocks.

Joe Godfrey, enjoying being able to see more than a few stars in the sky.

Additional Info.

Certain lights, sodium (like street lights) use a multiple of the running load at startup, which can last for 30 seconds or so, which means the first thirty seconds, take say three times the light running normally, so for two minutes, it is agruable as to costs, if turned on and off repeatedly.

However there is no excuse for leaving lights on all night, from the end of work (say 6pm), until dusk the next evening (say 4pm in the winter) as they will use 90 seconds worth to turn them back on, rather than over twenty two hours if left on constantly, which completely defeats the purpose of these efficient lights.

Street lights adjacent to rail lines are shroweded in the UK, to aid safety.

Buildings are designed to allow correct light levels, so near a window, has more light than in the centre of a floor, so in theory, perimeter lights should be switched seperately from central, however this never happens.

Lights produce heat, therefor, they need to be factored into HVAC systems, however they are frequently not, which means that aircon systems work harder, therefor less efficiently than they were designed to , and have a shorter working life, thereby cost and environmental impact.

Tourist attractions, need not leave their lights on between 2am and 5 am, as no one ever looks at them, so Parliament for a start is a bad example.