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The final results for our Street Light polls have now been counted. It may be possible to still vote for several days, but these votes will not be included in the information sent to Derbyshire County Council (DCC).

You can still comment on
the County Council’s own website until Tuesday (2nd April 2013)

Our full poll results and workings out can be down loaded as a pdf by clicking here, and will be forwarded to the County Council. However here is a summary:

PARWICH.ORG readers supported the general principle of ‘part night lighting with decisions being made on a light by light basis’. The poll results agreed with DCC’s proposals for 16 lights, did not reach any consensus for one light, and disagreed with the proposals for 16 lights.

There is a clear recommendation that more lights be part night than the County Council proposes, suggesting all lights in Smithy Close, Smithy Lane, Church Walk, Creamery Lane, Croft Avenue, Kiln Lane, Rathbourne Croft and Monsdale Lane be part night, that is all the lights beyond Main Street and Shaw Lane.

Overall this is a consistent response, but it could be questioned however if this is appropriate for the first light in Smithy Close (093093), as the Flats are for older people and as it also lights Main Street by the Sycamore Inn, which is permitted by its license to remain open beyond 12-30am.

Though generally supporting the idea that this prime access route of Main Street (including Nether Green, Chestnut Cottages and Sycamore Cottages) and Shaw Lane has some all night lighting, the polls suggest further changes to the proposals here too: firstly that the lights by Flaxdale (065365) and outside 2 Chestnut Cottages (065368) be part night; and secondly that the ones opposite Brentwood (065364) and by the phone exchange (065363) are on all night. The one opposite Brentwood lights the difficult junction with Shaw Lane.

In relation to switching off 2 lights in Kiln Lane altogether there is opposition; most strongly with the one nearest Parwich Hall (092989) with a preference that is part night; but less emphatically for the one by Bells Yard (065361), which we have interpreted as support for this also being part night. (This differs from the interim results given to Parwich Parish Council.)

We at PARWICH.ORG have recommend that the County Council review the proposals for all 16 lights where the poll results disagree with their proposals.