City of Melbourne : visit our website Online: contact us  Email: engineering@melbourne.vic.gov.au (please put ‘Draft Lighting Strategy’ in the subject line) or simply reply to this email .All submissions must be received by 5pm Wednesday 8 May 2013.  The draft Strategy aims to minimise the negative impacts of outdoor lighting by embracing efficient technology, using lighting responsibly and integrating with other energy conservation activities. The Strategy addresses five major themes:

• 1.       Designing the Luminous City – reinforcing Melbourne’s physical form: Aims to ensure a consistent, attractive and balanced approach to the design of lighting throughout the City of Melbourne.
•  2.       Safety and Amenity – improving pedestrian safety and amenity: Aims to ensure that public lighting provides the required levels of illumination so that the use of the city environment is appropriate and safe.
• 3.       Attracting the Evening Crowd – bringing more activity into Melbourne’s public spaces: Aims to support and promote Melbourne as a 24 hour city that can be enhanced by innovative and successful lighting programs.
• 4.       Designing the Sustainable City – minimising the negative impacts of outdoor lighting: Aims to promote efficient technology, responsible management practices and other forms of energy conservation.
• 5.       Keeping the Lights Shining – maintaining quality lighting assets: Aims for a proactive maintenance program for all light assets to ensure all other strategies are implemented to deliver quality lighting and safety outcomes while managing operating costs and energy consumption.      Phone contact 03 9658 9947 or Email: Zhanna.sichivitsa@melbourne.vic.gov.au