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Street Lighting not working
Reported in the Street lighting category anonymously at 20:41, Wed 12 September 2018
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council 4 minutes later
All streetlighting on the Northgate Estate in Wallingford is still not working. Whether or not the OCC can repair these or not they are responsible and I believe it reasonable to expect an explanation and a timeframe for such a repair.
Council ref: 1411481
Updates
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When our street lighting contractor (Amey Street Lighting) attended the site it was confirmed that it was a fault with the electricity supply to that lights rather than within the lights themselves. In much the same way as a typical household, Oxfordshire County Council is responsible only for the street light, but not for the electrical infrastructure outside of its own asset, the cabling serving street lights is provided and maintained by the Local District Network Operator (LDNO), which for this region is Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN). These are outside of the local authority control and subject to a separate regulatory framework overseen by ofgem. We have passed the issue to SSE who should rectify within 20 days, sorry for the inconvenience this will cause
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 09:45, Thu 13 September 2018
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SSE have informed our local MP today that they have not been told about this fault. Please can you confirm how and when they were told, and the date by which they should rectify the problem?
Posted anonymously at 15:02, Mon 24 September 2018
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Good afternoon I can confirm SSE were notified of a supply fault on columns 2,3 and 4 Fitzcount Way on the 13 September and they supplied their reference of ES6961. OCC ref for this job is 346036. SSE have provided a target date of the 10 October, this would be in line with Ofgem regulations and the latest date this should be repaired.
State changed to: not the council's responsibility
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 16:21, Mon 24 September 2018
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