CITY SCHEME IS A WALK IN THE PARK FOR WRTL
 Night
time security issues in Leicester’s Victoria Park prompted the
city’s council to invest in new lighting from WRTL Exterior Lighting
to improve public safety.
The park - with its famous Lutyens war memorial - has been a source
of the city’s enjoyment for over 100 years. Now, with the Council’s
Spring 2008 lighting scheme incorporating WRTL’s award-winning
2-Tone lantern, the tree-bordered walkways crossing the area are
much more pedestrian friendly.
“The park is bordered by Leicester University and the railway
station, which is opposite the students’ accommodation area,”
comments Leicester City Council’s public lighting group manager,
Manjeet Virdee. “There are paved paths across the park, sheltered by
trees, as well as a perimeter path.
“We recently upgraded the lighting of the perimeter path but, at
night, students and other pedestrians still chose to walk across the
park’s unlit paths late at night, as a direct route back to their
homes. There were frequent security issues, which were the subject
of a local campaign by residents and the students in 2007, to which
we responded this year.”
One particular challenge in the designing of the scheme was posed by
the spacing of the columns with respect to the trees which - without
careful consideration - could have created shadowing on the paths.
The council overcame this problem by working closely with WRTL’s
design engineer and specialist installers David Webster Limited.
WRTL’s 2Tone lantern was proven to provide the best performance to
meet the challenges of the location and was specified, complete with
45W CosmoPolis lamp and gear, on a 6 metre steel column, giving
excellent uniformity despite the tree-lined route.
“The 2-Tone lantern is a very unobtrusive, providing excellent glare
control and giving no upward light by using the flat glass,” says
Manjeet. “The installation is particularly impressive at night.”
The first street lantern designed specifically to conform to the
strict S1 G6 Glare classification, 2-Tone is proving a popular
offering for local authority and PFI contracts. Just a year since
its launch, 2-Tone has already scooped two industry awards, as well
as a highly commended recommendation.
“We are happy to have been involved in this project and are
confident the new lighting will improve safety in the park for the
benefit of all its residents,” says DW Webster’s Branch Manager,
Jamie Sharpe.
Technical note: WRTL’s 2-Tone lantern design capitalises on the
exceptional energy efficiency and size advantages of the innovative,
high intensity discharge lamps currently available. It accommodates
the CosmoPolis, CDM-T/HCI-T (Powerball) and HQI-T white light
sources between 45 and 150W outputs, complete with electronic gear.
Its extremely compact dimensions (body 445mm long, 216mm wide, 107mm
high) make it visibly smaller than competitive larger scale lanterns
widely used for these new light sources. The aesthetics of its
compact design and subtly toned finish also help it to blend into a
wide variety of urban streetscapes.
The 2-Tone’s small size also helps its sustainability credentials
through the reduced carbon footprint in its manufacture, lower
transport costs and less material with no glue; it can be fully
dismantled with near total recyclability. All these features help it
spearhead WRTL’s Energy efficiency, Sustainability and Performance
(ESP) initiative.
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