Residents of an outer suburban estate are fighting to save a series of expensive decorative lamp posts inspired by the Paris end of Collins Street.
Expensive decorative street lights on a Pakenham estate are being removed as their globes are now banned.Power company AusNet says the new replacements will be far cheaper to maintain.Heritage Springs in Pakenham is almost as far from the Paris end of Collins Street as a Melbourne neighbourhood gets, but the two places share one distinguishing feature.
But the lamp posts have begun to disappear over the past two years, replaced by LED lamp posts with a new and more utilitarian design that locals argue is erasing the estate’s character. Following a short and fiery campaign, the council voted last week to investigate a way to preserve the remaining lamp posts but warned residents there is no guarantee they can be saved.
An example of one of the “shocking” replacement street lamps that have recently been put up around Pakenham.The group’s campaign began just weeks ago, when Bill Ronald, a former mayor of the Cardinia Shire Council, saw an AusNet worker pulling down one of the lamps on his street. The worker told him that all 1900 lamps in the shire were being removed and replaced with new lamps.
The Cardinia Shire Council has told residents the mercury vapour globes are becoming unserviceable after the international ban in 2013. According to a council report tabled last week, 1220 of the shire’s 1900 mercury vapour lamps have already been replaced, leaving just 680 of the originals standing. A potential but unapproved retrofit globe AusNet has identified would “use over twice the energy and increase maintenance costs as opposed to the current approved replacement LED fittings”.
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