The existing street lighting on some of the listed buildings in the Devonshire Street can be removed and replaced by “architectural lighting” after the plans have been approved next week.
Members of the planning committee of the Cumberland Council met on Wednesday (February 19) in the Civic Center in Carlisle (February 19) to examine the application.
Eric Wright Civil Engineering had applied for the listed consent for the construction to make the changes in the context of a council project, and since an objection is obtained that was caused by the material planning problems, it was submitted for examination before the committee.
It was recommended that the application was approved under the planning conditions. The Devonshire Street is located in the Carlisle city center and contains a number of commercial runs on the ground floor, whereby the upper floors of the three -story buildings are used for commercial or residential purposes.
City Councilor Roger Dobson (Corby and Hayton, Lib Dems) found that an objection feared that the new lighting was like a “disco lighting”, and he asked for the security that this would not be the case.
Stephen Daniel, a planning officer of the council, told him that they would definitely not flash a disco light and the color of the lighting could be changed for certain events as part of the council program.
City Councilor Andrew Semple (Cockermouth South, Labor) said that it was a last part of a “massive improvement” in the Devonshire Street.
According to the report, all buildings on the north side of the Devonshire Street Street are listed buildings, all except for one of the buildings on the south side of the street are also listed and date from the mid -1800s.
It adds: “The proposal should remove six existing wall assembly lights, three on each side of the Devonshire Street, which deals with LED lamp units with wall -mounted cable and junction boxes.
“These were used by the Cumbria County Council to replace earlier sodium units, and date unknown, but accepted 10-20 years ago.
“A method for removing the wall mounted lights and for all repairs to the existing lead flash was submitted with the application.
“The removal of these lights would have positive effects on the listed buildings that they are attached.
“The proposal also tries to install a new architectural lighting, which consists of external LED lighting bars that would illuminate the upper floors of the buildings.
When the matter was set for voting, the committee members supported them unanimously.