Amanda Taylor

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Should streetlights be switched off? and other hard questions

by admin on 30 October, 2015

The County Council is at last consulting on its plan to switch off streetlights between midnight and 6am. Please take part in the Cambridgeshire Streetlight Consultation, running till 11th December.

This cut has generated a lot of concern especially in areas where people are around in the small hours, or the early morning. But it is just one of many proposed cuts that leave a bad taste in the mouth – other economies are to end mobile library services, stop community transport and school buses, slash the budget for roads maintenance, and reduce the funding for children’s centres and adult social care.

The cut is in response to the deep budget deficit that the County Council is grappling with this year, thanks to a poisonous cocktail of the government withdrawing funding and the population soaring.  To see the streetlighting proposals in context, you may wish to look at the wider budget consultation, Cambridgeshire’s £100 million budget challenge.

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