Lighting Impact Assessment
Lighting impact assessments are crucial to the environmental impact of any development on their location.
How a neighbourhood will be impacted by light from the proposed development and associated construction work is vitally important – and governed by a series of protocols and legislative requirements.
Our experienced lighting impact consultants can help guide you through the laws and practicalities around safe, secure and environmentally friendly lighting plans.
We will help you develop lighting arrangements that are unobtrusive to neighbours and ecology friendly with our keen focus on ecology and sustainability.
Our Lighting Assessments are carried out in accordance with relevant local planning policies, British Standards and guidance from the Institution of Lighting Professional’s (PLG 04, GN01 and GN08) to ensure the assessment follows best practice.
Our experienced team of engineers have exceptional levels of knowledge and offer advice on all aspects of Lighting Design from concept through to producing full design packages to meet our clients’ specifications.
We offer extensive experience in report writing covering both the details of the lighting, sensitivity of the local ecology and how best the overall lighting strategy might affect the development.
Lighting impact assessments consider different elements of legislation, including:
- Professional Lighting Guide PLG 04 “Guidance on Undertaking Environmental Lighting Impact Assessments” Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP):2013
- Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Obtrusive Light; 2020 Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP)
- BS5489-1:2013 (BS5489-1:2020 introduced in June 2020) Code of practice for the design of road lighting Part 1: Lighting of roads and public amenity areas
- Institution of Lighting Professionals, Bat Conservation Trust Lighting Guidance (August 2018)
- BS EN 13201 2015
- BS 12464-2:2014 – Light and Lighting. Lighting of work places. Outdoor work places
- Bat Conservation Trust 2014 Interim Guidance
- Environmental Protection Act 1990 / Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 National Planning Policy Framework
Services we offer include:
- Undertaking baseline lighting surveys after dark so we can measure current lighting levels
- Undertaking a desktop study of the surrounding area to determine who or what could be affected by lighting (known as sensitive receptors)
- Developing a lighting strategy, or determining the scope of what needs lighting to ensure obtrusive light is mitigated
- Proposing mitigation measures to ensure lighting arrangements are unlikely to adversely affect sensitive receptors
- Ecologically focused lighting strategy for a successful planning application or to implement conditions imposed by the local authority for your development
We will provide drawings outlining how and where light will fall according to your design and the potential impact of glare.
And our lighting impact assessments will include a review of lighting against the Institution of Lighting Professionals, Bat Conservation Trust Lighting Guidance August 2018 (Guidance Note 08/18) and Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Obtrusive Light; 2020 Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP).
If you’d like an initial discussion around lighting impact assessments, please get in touch with us today and we will be delighted to assist you.
