New street lights

[Mac]

Doug, if you complain to your council about the light pollution in to your house from the street light, they have to fit a shade of some sort to reduce the impact.

Mac.

[Fay]

well i dont think the one outside will impact me too much as behind a tree

[Kenny]

I asked for one of the new lights in front of my house to be shielded and it was completely ineffective despite 2 repeat visits.

[Mike]

Ask again. By law they have to ensure no light encroaches on your property or affects your quality of life.

[MarkS]

Yeah, some of the new LED lights along Crofton Road from Locksbottom to Orpington Station are badly placed from a driver's point of view...

I walked from Locksbottom to Orpington Station this morning.  Those new LED lights are really bright and throw light over a very wide area.  Comparing the brightness to the headlights of cars coming along the road, not a single car had headlights with more intense glare than the streetlights - that gives some indication of how bright they are.  It is true that the downward light cone was quite obvious in the murk but even so they light up the whole of the front elevation and garden of each house - shining straight into bedroom windows and and probably lighting a lot of the back garden as well.  Only a handful of them have any kind of shielding attached.  I arrived at the station with a retina full of afterimages

It is difficult to believe that these LED lights will help astronomy.  The crucial issue is how much light scatters sideways and upwards.  I found that difficult to ascertain.

Mark

[Rick]

shining straight into bedroom windows and and probably lighting a lot of the back garden as well.

Yeah, that's the impression I've got of the new LEDs on the main roads; very unpleasant for anyone living next to them...

[RobertM]

shining straight into bedroom windows and and probably lighting a lot of the back garden as well.

Yeah, that's the impression I've got of the new LEDs on the main roads; very unpleasant for anyone living next to them...

Yes like us 

We had the one across the road and side road shielded and another dimmed.  They are a serious annoyance and danger to road users especially if you wear glasses - in the wet there's just far too much glare especially with the default brightness setting i.e. max

The sodium lights we could deal with but we've now got blackout curtains upstairs so we can get some sleep !

Robert

[Rick]

We had the one across the road and side road shielded and another dimmed.

If you've got any useful names and phone numbers...     

[RobertM]

Rick, I used the Bromley web site to report the issue.  Could be that 'disturbed sleep patterns' helped.

https://fix.bromley.gov.uk

Good luck

Robert

[Rick]

Thanks. I'll see whether I can convince my friend (who has one of the new lights right outside his house) that it's worth complaining about stupidly bright lights...