Monday 18 August 2008

Ugly streetlamp award for the council

Being in the middle of a conservation area on expects replacement street furniture to reflect this, so I was somewhat surprised when the streetlamp pictured above appeared at the bottom of my garden this morning.

The two street lamps pictured below are on the opposite side of the road, as they didn’t take the short one out when they put the tall one in I am wondering if we will soon have three in a line there.

They have also put it right next to the wall which makes it easy to climb and get onto the roofs, I am sure I heard somewhere that this sort of bad positioning was to be changed to help reduce crime.

7 comments:

  1. Sure this is a lamp-post? Looks more like one of those tripods from War of the Worlds to me.

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  2. Sure this is a lamp-post? Looks more like one of those tripods from War of the Worlds to me.

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  3. To be fair, I think this is a more sensible height for this spot (I bet the person who lives behind that lower window is relieved!). Horrible style though.

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  4. 20.16 I just hope the wretched thing will walk away.

    Peter as the two street lamps next to each other have not actually worked for a long time, this is Thanet after all, I don’t suppose it will make that much difference to them.

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  5. I remember during the works on the Victoria Traffic Lights one of those nearly fell down. The lamp part came apart from the post and hung by the cable. Took a big emergency crew to put it back. Its the one right outside the Victoria Pub.

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  6. It's been like this in Park Lane, Birchington for four or five years or so. The new lamps went in, and they never removed the old posts..the old lights, but not the posts. The pavement was narrow enough as it was, without these additional obstacles.

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  7. James the new one certainly sways a lot more in the wind a lot more than the old ones, I suspect the metal is a lot thinner, beneficial to the firm making them as they will probably have to replaced a lot more frequently, in the meantime I hope they don’t start falling over.

    9.53 I am not sure if this is KCC or TDC but I will get on to them and see if anything can be done.

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