Connect Roads

Sunderland

In August 2003 Connect Roads Sunderland was awarded the contract to design, finance, provide and maintain the street lighting and highway signs for 25 years. The existing workforce was transferred under TUPE regulations from the City of Sunderland Council.

The project comprises a 5 year Core Investment Programme and a 25 year Maintenance Programme.

The Core Investment Programme involves the replacement of 30,500 street lighting columns and 6,000 highway signs in accordance with the latest European standards.

The Term Maintenance Programme involves a planned maintenance approach, replacing lamps in street lights on expiry of a specific time period rather than at the point of lamp failure, thereby reducing the number of overall lights out at any point in time

Facts and figures 45,000 streetlights Replacement of 70% of Sunderland's street lights

Addition of 3500 columns 13,600 highway signs, bollards and subway lights