Dark Skies Engineers saved £5 million and helped to boost North Yorkshire s winter tourism as they replaced 50,400 street lights. North Yorkshire County Council has completed its programme of installing energy-saving LED lamps on all its highway lights two years ahead of schedule and at a cost of £8 million instead of the estimated £13 million. It hopes the programme will lead to reduced maintenance and repair costs, improved lighting, a cut in the council s carbon footprint and standardisation of the county s street lights. Along the way it has helped the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks earn International Dark Sky Reserve status by using special LED bulbs in the two parks in fittings that stop light going upwards and lighting up the sky.
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YOU may have recently seen mention of the publication of a new report on biodiversity, principally written by Professor Dasgupta and called the Dasgupta report, writes Giles Archibald, leader of South Lakeland District Council. It is a stunning wake-up call. As I have previously mentioned, we need nature to provide us with our fresh water, fresh air, wonderful landscapes and opportunities for recreation. In addition, nature delivers the nutrient cycles, food, medicines and climate regulation that is critical to our current human existence. The report catalogues the systemic failure to protect our environment. It confirms we are using Earth’s resources at an unsustainable rate. It indicates we have experienced a decline in what the report calls the natural capital per person of some 40 per cent between 1992 and 2014. Species are declining at an alarming and unprecedented rate.
Here are some of the most expensive properties currently on the market in South Lakeland. Firstly, the most expensive property listed on Zoopla at £1,175,000 is this detached house in Old Hutton. The property, which is currently used as a riding school, has the potential for seven bedrooms, according to estate agents Rural Scene. The family home also includes 24 acres of land, 22 Stables, tack and feed rooms, log cabin providing extra accommodation, various barns, lorry / trailer parking and paddocks. Rural Scene described the property as: A fantastic lifestyle property set in approx. 24 acres with a vast range of equestrian facilities, large detached home with huge extension requiring finishing and additional two bedroom log cabin.
Discover the Moon, Mars. and moths: Join in with next month s Virtual Dark Skies Festival and learn why darkness is crucial to the nation s wildlife
The theme of this year’s Dark Skies Festival, which runs from February 12 to 28, is Nature At Night
Experts will reveal science secrets from the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks
On Feb 18, Go Stargazing will explain what will happen with Nasa’s landing of Perseverance Rover on Mars