I WOUld like to offer a further twist on Haringey Council's street lighting policy.

Like neighbouring residential streets in this area we are, or were, fortunate in having street lights that are/were pleasing to the eye and cast out a perfectly adequate amber light.

These were erected in an area when it seems the local authority of the time had a more `enlightened' approach to such matters.

Now the council, in its wisdom, is in the process of replacing the existing local stock with new ugly utilitarian ones that throw out a harsh white light.

Last October this blight reached my road, when these new implants were erected among existing stock. Strangely nine months later the old street lights still function whereas the new ones remain off.

What does this mean? Could it be that the contract to sell off the old street lights has fallen through? Or is it that the council has belatedly come to its senses and decided to stop this madness, thereby sparing Coleraine and Lyttleton Roads from a similar fate?

If it is the latter then let's hope that they remove these new unwanted lights pronto.

GUY PE

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