Coventry LED streetlighting upgrade – what residents need to know
A £9.96 million programme to upgrade 28,847 streetlights to LED representing a major modernisation of the city’s lighting, which starts this year and will take about 2 years to complete.
Here’s everything you need to know while the work is underway:
What’s happening?
- old streetlight lanterns will be replaced with modern, energy-efficient LED lanterns specifically designed for your street
- works will commence in November 2025 starting with St Michael's ward and working outwards
- wards lists are based on the existing ward boundaries at the start of the programme
- heritage lanterns or lanterns already upgraded to LED are excluded from this project
What to expect
- majority of works will be conducted during the daytime (some works may be carried out early in the morning) and each lantern takes up to 30 minutes to upgrade
- once installed the new LED lantern will be on for short period of time during the daytime to allow for testing
- disruption from these mobile works will be kept to a minimum
- if you live on a residential road and we are working outside your home, there may be a slight disturbance for a short period
- when we’re working on a main road, we may need close a lane to carry out the work. If we do, we’ll put up signs on the roads
- there may be occasions where a whole street cannot be completed in the same visit due to lantern availability. The remaining ones will be prioritised