Wakefield Street Lighting

Descriptions

The Council and Amey Highways Lighting (Wakefield) Ltd (the ‘Contractor’) entered into a Project Agreement on 23 December 2003 for the provision and maintenance of public street lighting within Wakefield (the ‘Project Agreement’). The project agreement has a term of 25 years, ending February 2029, and was entered into pursuant to the national Private Finance Initiative (‘PFI’).The parties are entering into a deed of amendment to the Project Agreement (the ‘DoA’). The DoA will change the Project Agreement so that it requires certain alterations to the street lighting estate, comprising replacement of the current luminaires with LED luminaires (‘LEDs’) and the implementation of a central management system (‘CMS’) (together the ‘LED Changes’). The CMS controls the times at which street lights turn on and off and controls the amount of light by varying the energy consumed. Functional and fault information is sent from the street lights to the CMS.