Street lighting in villages seems to fall to the Parish Council, ours in S Northants certainly does.
Pretty much every street light in village was changed last year with some type of low energy bulb replacing a mix of sodium and other types. Not sure if they're LED or some other technology; IIRC while savings were greatest with LED the capital cost was more and there was a debate around payoff periods etc.
Think they got a grant or 'soft' loan from either County or national gov.
The County have also done a lot of work on 'their' roads with new columns, low scatter downlighters and new bulb technology. Lighting has also been removed from stretches of the M1. I well recall lighting marching northwards so that by eighties it was contiuous from J19 to J4; no longer so.
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