At 1.30am the village is a blaze of lights from street lights, Hubbards, the College and security lights on homes. 20 years ago you could see the night sky nearly every night it is now a rare experience. Should Otley Green group tackle light pollution as an issue? Should we conduct an online survey?

Please let Tony Barrett know what you think.

Possible solutions

• Persuade local business to reduce glare from their lighting and consider whether they really need lights on all night, could they be connected to movement sensors
• Reduce the number of street lights in Otley, switch them off at midnight?
• Persuade people to install lower wattage security lights and connect them to motion sensors

Some facts about light pollution

• The cost A third of street lighting goes upwards wasting £120M a year.
• If a 10th of houses have security lighting and it is left on for 1 hour a night this costs £40M a year more than low wattage solutions. The equivalent cost for commercial premises costs £800m a year!!
  
  That's a lot of CO2 Reducing street lighting Some communities have arranged to have street lights switched of late at night or the number of lights reduced.
  
  The Campaign for Rural England Is carrying out a survey on light pollution - http://www.cpre.org.uk.
  
  Also there is booklet produced by Environmental Protection UK Download Link