Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

19 August 2009L116Y01Enmore ParkLighting ReviewI have been asked to carry out a lighting review of the existing public lightingin Enmore Park. I inspected the park by day on 5 th March 2009 and by nighton 22 nd April 2009.GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LIGHTING OF PARKSParks or sections of parks can be lit for different purposes. The reason for thelighting will tend to determine the nature of the lighting.The main reasons that parks are lit are:• For safe movement of people through the park• To extend the usage of the park by encouraging people to use thepark at night.• To discourage antisocial behaviour in the park at night• To make the park appear attractive at night• To improve the safety within the park.Some of the reasons can be conflicting.There is an Australian Standard that addresses the lighting of public spaces,including parks. The Standard is AS1158.3.1- Lighting for roads and publicspaces Part 3.1: Pedestrian area (category P) lighting. The standard is notmandatory but would be a bench mark for justifying the adequacy of thelighting within the park.It is not necessary to light a park or to light all the routes through a park,however if people are expected to either access areas within the park at nightor cross the park then it is reasonable to expect that the path is lit.If a path is lit it is then probably reasonable to expect that the path is light tomeet the relevant category of the Australian Standard.The Standard recommends light technical parameters for different categoriesof lighting based on:• The function of the space or area• The level of night usage of the space• The risk of crime• The desire to increase the prestige of the space.The standard recommends illumination levels in the horizontal and verticalplane, uniformity of illuminance and a limit to the spill light into the sky.Illuminance is a measure of the amount of light that falls on a point and isgenerally measured in lux.Lighting, Art + ScienceLighting ConsultantsElectrical Engineers4a Park CrescentPYMBLE, NSW 2073Interior LightingDaylightingLandscape LightingSports LightingFloodlightingGeneral PowerCommunicationsMaster Security LicenseNo 409395706PH 02 9144 1164FX 02 9440 1236Emailmail@lightingartandscience.com.auBecause the Standard addresses a variety of security and prestige aspectsas well as safe movement, the lighting levels that are recommended are oftenmuch higher than those required to safely walk along a path. In someconditions the recommended illuminance level for a park path can be nearly10 times that of a footpath in an adjacent street. The task of safely walking ona path in a park is no more difficult than walking along the path in the street,Peter McLeanBE M Bdg Sc (Syd)FIE (Aust) NPER3FIES (Aust + NZ)Lighting, Art & SciencePty LimitedA.B.N. 84 003 168 830