Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Update on streetlight repairs at Broad Road, Blackhall Rocks

Last month I reported a streetlight outage at Broad Road in Blackhall Rocks after residents told me the street had been in almost complete darkness for some time.

Shortly afterwards I checked on progress and was told there was a major structural fault in the system and that Northern Powergrid would need to carry out repairs. Background details can be found here in a monthly community update report I posted earlier this month: Community Activities Update for May 2025

Earlier this week a resident contacted me to let me know that the lights had still not been fixed so I contacted the council again to get an update from Northern Powergrid on what had happened so far and to find out when the lights would be repaired. I've reproduced the response from NP below in full:

'Northern Powergrid are booked in mid-July to carry out new connections along this stretch of road - this was the agreed course of action once the major fault was investigated.'

Hopefully Northern Powergrid will complete their repair works soon and get the streetlights at Broad Road back in full working order again.