Floodlight threat in Warwickshire village

[Laura J]

I really will try and take all comments on board - always good to look around the NIMBY (Not in my back yard) opinions i still have i suppose .... so thanks...

It really annoys me that there were SO many warm summer/autumn days and evenings with sufficient light to play - and NO-one was out playing tennis!! & the vast majority of the locals likely to be affected are not members...or if they are free members (like the village kids) they can be kicked off the courts if a fee paying member turns up (personal experience..Grrr)! I do wonder if they deserve to get a grant to pay for them...id rather see lottery grant money put into a kids tennis club for example...

If animals are likely disturbed i still want to know as i know how lucky we are here! Thanks for comments on EIA type surveys i will look into that!

Also, there is so little crime (at least i think) in the village...maybe due to lack of light...Its also rather cute to see people walking back from the pubs with torches! Shame this will be lost...even if they turn off at 11ish...

Besides the light at night we will still be left with 9 tall and rather ugly posts blotting the scenery....

Sigh.... Of course I also wonder how the village ought to offset the carbon footprint the lights will leave...

[sometimes]

you don't need a campaign, presuming that the court is owned by a club, get any like minded inviduals to join the club with yourself and vote the proposal/chairman/committee out -easy peasy. Then vote to wind the club up, share the divi out (checking length of membership rules etc) - you could come out with a nice little earner - put up a few bat boxes.

Mind you if you can't find any friends who share your passion you're probably stuffed. In which case it might be better to work with the club - getting them to fit shades to stop stray light, agreeing a 'light's out' time. etc.

[Laura J]

At £90+ membership you can forget that but nice idea!

[ron1863]

I don't see a problem with a spotlit tennis court. After all, the lights only shine on the court, not the village.
Why not go the whole hog and switch all the street lights off in the village.

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by Laura J

I really will try and take all comments on board - always good to look around the NIMBY (Not in my back yard) opinions i still have i suppose .... so thanks...

It really annoys me that there were SO many warm summer/autumn days and evenings with sufficient light to play - and NO-one was out playing tennis!! & the vast majority of the locals likely to be affected are not members...or if they are free members (like the village kids) they can be kicked off the courts if a fee paying member turns up (personal experience..Grrr)! I do wonder if they deserve to get a grant to pay for them...id rather see lottery grant money put into a kids tennis club for example...

If animals are likely disturbed i still want to know as i know how lucky we are here! Thanks for comments on EIA type surveys i will look into that!

Also, there is so little crime (at least i think) in the village...maybe due to lack of light...Its also rather cute to see people walking back from the pubs with torches! Shame this will be lost...even if they turn off at 11ish...

Besides the light at night we will still be left with 9 tall and rather ugly posts blotting the scenery....

Sigh.... Of course I also wonder how the village ought to offset the carbon footprint the lights will leave...

I note that you local Council actually has a secific online form for the reporting of "Light Pollution" !

It might be worth writing to the Conservation Dept - rather than the Planners and see what view you get from them. Even if this develoment does go ahead you should be able to ensure that 'best practice' is used in installing the lights and the kind of lighting used - see

http://www.ile.org.uk/uploads/File/0...treduction.pdf

For sports lighting installations (see also design standards listed on Page 4) the use of luminaires with double
asymmetric beams designed so that the front glazing is kept at or near parallel to the surface being lit should, if correctly aimed, ensure minimum obtrusive light.

CM

[Laura J]

Originally Posted by ron1863

I don't see a problem with a spotlit tennis court. After all, the lights only shine on the court, not the village.
Why not go the whole hog and switch all the street lights off in the village.

But thats the point though...... there are no street lights in this village!

Today = dry, bright November Sunday and yet NO-one playing on the courts again all day! Does this justify spending lottery grant funds....creating light pollution and ugly mess....and generally annoying all the locals?

[Buzzy]

It is unfortunate that a few peoples enjoyment of a dark sky at night in rural areas is ruined by a few inconsiderates who want to bring the town to the village. Why can't people leave the unlit villages as they are and go somewhere else already lit up, so as not to affect those already living in the area for it's 'rural' qualities. If you don't like the dark, then go to a town or city where it is light 24hrs a day and leave rural England rural.