A FOREST of outdated street lights in Neath Port Talbot will be taken down and replaced if a �15 million investment is approved.
Neath Port Talbot Council is looking at replacing thousands of wooden pole-mounted lights across the county in the first instance.
Old concrete, metal and fibreglass stock will then be renewed.
The multimillion-pound investment project involves a phased programme designed to ensure all lights in the county's roads network continue to be in good working order. Neath Port Talbot is responsible for around 18,000 of them.
Dimming
A report setting out the proposals will go before members next week.
It will also consider ways of reducing the council's carbon footprint — including dimming street lights during the early hours of the morning.
Council leader Ali Thomas said revenue funds would be used to pay for prudential borrowing to deliver the programme.
"Ageing public lighting stocks are an issue for many local authorities, and we have carefully considered and planned how to tackle the situation in Neath Port Talbot over the past few years," said Councillor Thomas.
"Funding for renewal work has been allocated and incorporated in the council's forward financial plan to ensure that our streets and roads are kept well lit and safe for the benefit of local residents and visitors to Neath Port Talbot."
The strategy involves spending up to �15 million over five years to repair or renew aged street lights.
Some 4,000 wooden pole- mounted street lights would be replaced both in residential areas and along some of the county's roads during the first phase of the programme.
The second phase would deal with a similar number of old concrete columns, with the final phase concentrating on the remaining steel, cast-and fibreglass stock that are more than ten years old.
The report is due to go before councillors on Thursday, March 31.
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