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Published: 24 May 2007

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• INTERESTING to read of disappearing lampposts (Letters, May 17). I wonder how many other readers have noticed how those lamps that remain are progressively giving less light.
One has only to turn from Haverstock Hill (where lamps have recently been changed) into Belsize Avenue (where they haven’t), or from Fellows Road into Eton Avenue (ditto) to see the difference.
You can stand halfway between the older lamps at night and still read a note or newsprint, but not in streets with the new ones.
A friend of mine appeared on my doorstep recently, bloodied and viciously mugged in one such street.
Time was when street lighting improvements meant more light to reduce crime. But now the council seems so intent on keeping expenditure down that lower light output is the order of the day.
Of course, the lamps have not been changed in Primrose Gardens or Eton Avenue – councillors live there!
I spoke to the council’s lighting department and it really seems that there is no other accountability when it comes to choosing streets for downgrading.
Yet outside Burnham Tower, lamps have been burning continuously day and night, and in bright sunshine, for at least a year and a half. What a waste of energy!
I raised this issue in writing with one of my local ward councillors in October 2006.
He acknowledged receipt of it, and of a chaser I sent him a few weeks later. But have I received a reply, and have the issues I raised been dealt with? Nope!
ROGER JUER
Briary Close, NW3

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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