Lighting: Pollution

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the levels of light pollution in the UK; whether light pollution in the UK is decreasing; and if so, at what rate.


This question was answered on 27th January 2020

A range of measures are in place to ensure that light pollution is effectively managed through controls in the planning system, the statutory nuisance regime and improvements in street lighting.

The Government has not made a recent assessment of overall levels of light pollution in the UK or of whether these are decreasing.

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