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Council reassures residents over streetlights switch-off

Exeter residents are being reassured over plans to reduce street lighting in the city. Draft plans of the areas to remain lit - which will include much-used walking-home routes - will then be put on display for the public to comment. The county


Police and councillors are currently being consulted on a draft map showing the areas where the lights will stay on all night, and those where they'll go off between 12.30am and 5.30am.

Draft plans of the areas to remain lit - which will include much-used walking-home routes - will then be put on display for the public to comment.

The county council, which is introducing the energy and cost-saving scheme, will be investing in a system enabling remote control of individual lamps and banks of lights in key areas of the city, meaning individual lamps or banks of lights can be switched on as and when needed.


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