Saffron Walden Town Council budgets to turn the street lights back on again
CAMPAIGNERS in Saffron Walden have been given hope after the town council voted to set aside �5000 in their budget to switch street lights in residential areas back on during the night time. Essex County Council s (ECC s) energy-saving scheme to turn off
CAMPAIGNERS in Saffron Walden have been given hope after the town council voted to set aside �5000 in their budget to switch street lights in residential areas back on during the night time.
Essex County Council's (ECC's) energy-saving scheme to turn off street lights in the town between midnight and 5am has caused concern among some residents that it has led to an increase in crime.
Last Wednesday campaigners from Winstanley Road petitioned councillors at meeting of Saffron Walden Town Council - which, in principal, could use its own funds to pay for the lights to be switched back on.
Cllr Richard Freeman proposed that �5000 be set aside to turn some of the town's street lights on throughout the night.
You may also want to watch:
He said: "The environmental cost could be fully offset by buying the electricity from a green energy supplier. I'm delighted that my colleagues agreed to my proposal. Hopefully we can do something to allay the growing fear of crime among local residents and make Saffron Walden a safer place."
However Cllr David Watson criticised the decision saying that it had added an extra �5000 to the council's budget despite no decision having been made as to whether they would actually pay for the lights to be turned back on or not.
Most Read
- 1 Walden pub reopens after four years
- 2 Affinity Water: No compensation for customers in water softening row
- 3 Audley End Miniature Railway celebrates a lockdown easing sellout
- 4 New Market Row deli will inspire community spirit, says mayor
- 5 St Mary's service held to mark death of Prince Philip
- 6 Application refused for 100 homes on former Friends School site
- 7 More work needed ahead of holiday easing, Stansted says
- 8 Bar staff smash £1,000 target in charity challenge
- 9 New pub opens: 'We had almost the whole village, and the one nearby'
- 10 Town council challenges water softening decision