A lighting assessment is required for all applications that include use of floodlighting or a significant amount of external lighting where the development would be:
- Adjacent to a residential property
- Adjacent to a listed building
- Within or adjacent to a conservation area
- Adjacent to a roost, breeding or resting place of or habitat of importance to a legally protected species (such as bats, badger, barn owl and great crested newt)
- Within the open countryside
- Alongside other water courses or habitats.
Requirements
Your assessment needs to include:
- a description showing proposed hours of operation, light distribution, light levels and column heights
- a layout plan of the development showing beam direction
- details of proposed equipment design
- details of the expected effect on nearby properties and roads
- a statement showing measures to reduce the impact of a development