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Mar 2023
£29,000 to be diverted from street light budget to pay for Stray lights
A total of £29,190 is to be diverted from the Harrogate district's street lighting budget to pay for the replacement of decorative lights on the Stray.
The trees line the Stray around West Park, Otley Road, Leeds Road, Montpellier Hill and York Place and are a popular winter attraction.
Last autumn Harrogate Borough Council replaced the old sodium lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs and wrapped them round trunks to prevent them hanging from branches and getting damaged.
The new lighting being installed
In a report due before Cllr Mike Chambers, cabinet member for housing and safer communities at Harrogate Borough Council, council officers are set to request retrospective permission to pay for the lights.
The report says the cost of the new lights "has been partly funded by parks and environmental service budgets" but a £29,000 shortfall remained.
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The report says responsibility for annual maintenance of the Stray tree lights rests housing and property services.
It adds:
The report adds the council has only received one complaint about the new lighting.
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