Remove Harvard/LeafNut controllers from six Gateshead columns (Council request)

[People & Places]

The host Council has formally requested — on behalf of residents on a named terrace — the removal of the streetlight 'control boxes' from a run of six lamp columns, following weeks of complaints and a councillor now involved. Escalated P0: this is the Council in whose building we sit, asking directly. The controllers on the six named columns are to come off and the complaint closed.

[S. Charlton (Gateshead, Customer Services)]

Passing this up urgently. Residents on the terrace have complained for weeks about the boxes on their lampposts, it's reached a councillor, and they've asked us formally to take them off. We are guests in their building. We cannot fob this off. P0.

[K. Charlton (Gateshead Support)]

I can pull the six myself this week — hour with a cherry-picker. But I need sign-off in writing to remove live field kit. Not touching an energised column without it.

[Programme Delivery]

Approved. Remove the controllers, restore the lanterns to plain luminaires, let the Council see it done in person. Keep it low-key.

[S. Charlton (Gateshead, Customer Services)]

Done. Council walked the terrace with the residents, everyone's happy, kit back in stores. For the record only: coverage on that run is unaffected — the columns either side overlap it. But they got their streetlights back and that's what matters to them. Resolved.