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Road Lighting Design

Street Lighting Design Consultants
Section 38 & 278 Specialists

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What we Illuminate

Cencode Independent Lighting Design Consultancy was formed in 2003 and has since established a trusted client base across both the public and private sectors. For over two decades, we have delivered excellence in street lighting design and outdoor lighting consultancy for housing developers, local authorities, architects, and planners throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. Our established clients are confident in the knowledge that they have a trusted and dedicated lighting design consultant by their side.

Section 38 Street Lighting Design

Our Section 38 street lighting designs are fully compliant with latest British and European standards BS 5489 & BS EN13201, together with local authority requirements. As experienced street lighting design consultants, we have streamlined the Section 38 approval process, delivering cost-effective, technically compliant lighting design packages for housing developers and engineering consultancies.

Section 278 Road Lighting Design

Cencode Independent Lighting Design Consultancy have decades of experience carrying out Section 278 road lighting surveys and street lighting designs. Our Section 278 road lighting designs are fully compliant with the latest editions of BS 7671, BS 5489 and BS EN 13201 and are expertly managed from initial survey through to local authority technical approval.

Solar Powered Street Lighting Design

Technological advances for storing energy in latest lithium-ion batteries and harvesting that energy using monocrystalline solar panels has vastly improved performance and reliability of solar powered street lighting. There’s mistaken belief that the British Isles doesn’t have enough sunlight throughout the year, particularly during winter, to make solar powered street lighting a reality. We’re now carrying out solar powered street lighting design schemes for many of our housing developer clients, providing energy-efficient and sustainable outdoor lighting solutions that perform reliably throughout the year. a having ourselves assessed night-time performance, during mid- winter, we found the solar powered street lighting equipment we specify to be quite impressive.

Planning Applications Discharge of Lighting Conditions

We’ve worked with numerous local authorities and their planning officers across the United Kingdom to assess proposed outdoor lighting for planning applications. We review proposed exterior lighting on a planning application and assess if adequately controlled to prevent light pollution and nuisance during night-time. We also advise independent town planners and architects how to  minimise potential effects of obtrusive light from outdoor lighting and ensure compliance to permissible tolerances of GN01/20 and CIE 150: 2017

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