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Published:
April 4, 2008
Safety
checks on Burnham seafront lights get underway
Work
to test the safety of street lighting columns along Burnham seafront
began on Friday (April 4th), a fortnight after strong winds sent
one column crashing down onto a pavement.
Somerset
County Council is using a specialised vehicle (pictured) to calculate
the strength of 46 lighting columns along The Esplanade and a
further 19 columns in the High Street.
 One
column on the seafront was brought
down in high winds last month, making the testing work all
the more urgent.
Burnham-On-Sea.com
reported last
month how the £2,000 cost of the mandatory tests would
likely be met by three groups - Burnham and Highbridge Town Council,
the Chamber of Trade and Burnham In Bloom.
The
Town Council will pay for the seafront testing work since its
decorative illuminations are attached to the columns, while the
Chamber and Bloom groups will fund the High Street work since
they use the columns for Christmas lights and flower baskets.
Tighter
government regulations recently came into force, requiring the
columns to be regularly tested for their structural integrity.
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