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Colin Dunn

2005

Bath Cricket Club - badly aimed floodlights

Like the Bath Bus Station also featured on this site (picture #102), the Bath Cricket Club has misaligned floodlights mounted on the building beside its clubhouse - one on the gable and one along the side of the building.

These are asymmetric lights designed to be mounted at or near to horizontal and throw light forward and down at about 45 degrees, thereby providing good and safe lighting whilst minimising glare.

These are instead tilted up about 60 degrees. This means that the main light beam is directed at 45 + 60 degrees = 105 degrees. 15 degrees _above_ the horizontal. So they waste their light and energy into the sky instead of directing it to the ground of the car park where really needed.

I walked past this area at night several times whilst on holiday, and found it painfully bright and disorienting. For pedestrians in the car park it's likely to be much more dangerous, as dazzled drivers are unlikely to see them.

Come on Bath Cricket Club. Tilt them down, stop pouring the light needlessly into the night sky, and make your car park a safer place.

Bath Cricket Club
North Parade Bridge Road
Bath
BA2 4EX

Tel: 01225 425935
Email: office@bathcricket.com
www.bathcricket.com
Picture Added on 27 January 2007.