The City of London has set out plans to turn off all “lighting without an essential function” by midnight.
Property owners across the Square Mile will be asked to switch off unnecessary building lights as part of a proposal by the City of London Corporation to create “brightness zones” governed by curfews.
A planning document produced by the Corporation says “obtrusive light is a growing problem in urban centres”, wasting energy, threatening wildlife and potentially harming human health.
It asks for property owners to turn out the lights by 10pm for the City’s residential and heritage districts, 11pm for cultural and tourist areas, and midnight for commercial, retail and transport hubs. It would last until dawn and cover “any architectural lighting, or lighting without an essential function”.
