street lamps

schwam66

alot of new street lmaps going up around town, does anyone know if you can buy the old ones off the council? would like a nice big yard light as the residential ones you find on the internet arent very tall it seems so curious as to if anyone knows if you can get old steet lamps or even new ones somewhere. thanks.

DUTR

They can be purchased, they are not cheap, also as everything is going on eco friendly, you may have to buy an led one. Oh and if they are above a certain height you may need planning permission to install it.

Have a look here not street lamps as you are after, but some are 3metres high.

schwam66

DUTR wrote: »

They can be purchased, they are not cheap, also as everything is going on eco friendly, you may have to buy an led one. Oh and if they are above a certain height you may need planning permission to install it.

Have a look here not street lamps as you are after, but some are 3metres high.

any idea where you can get one? have typed in the usual stuff into google not getting much, its all old style looking residential lamps i keep finding, have emailed the council but not heard back yet....thanks again for the help

DUTR

schwam66 wrote: »

any idea where you can get one? have typed in the usual stuff into google not getting much, its all old style looking residential lamps i keep finding, have emailed the council but not heard back yet....thanks again for the help

Whereabouts are you? It maybe worth asking where you see them upgrading the lamposts, but the councls may have a contract to weigh them in.

schwam66

DUTR wrote: »

Whereabouts are you? It maybe worth asking where you see them upgrading the lamposts, but the councls may have a contract to weigh them in.

in stoke..yeah thought about trying to ask someone when they putting them up but never see anyone! typical i suppose...thanks again

Kiran

They don't run on 240v

onomatopoeia99

Nothing to stop one installing a 240V fitting though. I have an old streetlamp in my front garden, installed by the previous owner. It takes a standard BC bulb.

BJV

I know when we decorated my sons b/room we bought a de-commissioned London traffic light. Looks fab! So I am sure that there we will be a way. Have to say got mine from Ebay???

lstar337

Can't you just get a long pole and put an LED flood light on it?

schwam66

lstar337 wrote: »

Can't you just get a long pole and put an LED flood light on it?

yeah will prolly have to not having much luck with anything else, where to get the pole though? just go to a wrought iron specialist?

dave030445

use a scaffold pole