Street lighting column replacement
Lancashire County Council has over 170,00 streetlighting columns. We have a programme to replace columns that have exceeded their expected useful life span and currently there are more than 26,000 columns over 40 years of age.
Lancashire County Council has a structural testing programme which provides data to identify those columns which are of the highest priority, this process looks at the countywide asset.
Spring budget 2023 column replacement
Approved Budget £550,000
Spend as 1 March 2024 £550,000
County wide columns replaced 348
Network North column replacement
2023/24 column replacement
Approved budget £874,738
Spend as 1 May 2024 £343,800
| Predicted column numbers | Budget | |
|---|---|---|
| Chorley | 29 | £45,790 |
| West Lancashire | 211 | £333,158 |
| South Ribble | 64 | £101,053 |
| Rossendale | 196 | £309,474 |
| Pendle | 18 | £28,421 |
| Burnley | 36 | £56,842 |
| Total | 554 | £874,738 |
2024/25 column replacement
Approved budget £300,000
| Predicted column numbers | Budget | |
|---|---|---|
| West Lancashire | 105 | £165,823 |
| Rossendale | 85 | £134,177 |
| Total | 190 | £300,000 |