Work stopped on 'enourmous' street lights 'big enough to make a NASA rocket engineer blush'

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Thursday 20 Feb 2014 1:39 PM

Written byEDWARD CURWEN

Cllr Steven Van De Kerkhove is baffled by the enormous new lights in Eynesbury. They are almost twice as tall as the old ones, as can be seen here.

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Work on lampposts that tower over historic St Neots has been stopped after homeowners complained their street was being blighted.

Cambridgeshire County Council has delegated responsibility for street lighting upgrades to building contractor Balfour Beatty, who set about putting in enormous lampposts twice as tall as the ones they were replacing in Eynesbury in January.

Work has been stopped on the monstrous lights, as residents campaign for an alternative.

Simon Harper, of Eynesbury, returned home from a trip abroad to find the building work well under way.

He said: The new fittings are 10m tall and tower over all the local buildings.

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Work stopped on 'enourmous' street lights 'big enough to make a NASA rocket engineer blush'