I read with interest your short report (The Voice, June 7) on Lincolnshire County Council’s response to the review of the controversial street lighting cash-saving exercise which has plunged many of our streets into total darkness after midnight.
Many important issues were raised by concerned council tax payers but that of a link between reduced lighting and crime has been disproved and that, it seems, is enough for the council to take little or no action.
Of the five recommendations made by the review, the final two are the most distasteful.
The idea of ‘multi-agency work carried out to reassure the public and change perceptions’ is insulting and patronising.
My perception of what it is like actually living in a town centre street incorporating a river, a cycle path, two pavements and a busy road which has no white lines on it, does not need changing.
The last recommendation is even worse – ‘the county develops protocol for communities to pay for street light upgrades’. This idea beggars belief.
I already pay for street lighting. It’s a great system known as council tax.
Kate Dickens
Chambers Court
Spalding
