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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 13, 2026

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Y. Collins

To ask the Chief Executive to set out the guidelines governing minimum distances between streetlights within an estate in relation to both the older sox type lighting and the new LED lighting.

REPLY:

All our footpaths and roadways, either within an estate or along distributor roads is designed to EN 13201, which is the European Standard for the design and installation of lighting in these cases. 

There is no set distance as each design is bespoke, depending on the geometry of the road/footpath space required to be lit.  

Tree locations and landscaping must also be taken into account. 

Software tools are used to calculate the distances and locations of public lighting columns using inputs such as those listed above.