Lincolnshire County Council has revealed when your streetlights are set to be shut off.

The council will switch off 38,000 streetlights in some areas of the county at 10pm or midnight until 6am as it looks to make savings of £41 million over the next financial year.

The authority hopes the initiative, which will also see 17,000 standard streetlights swapped out for energy-saving bulbs and 3,000 lights switched off for good outside built up areas across the county, will make annual savings of £1.7 million.

The money-saving scheme sparked outrage in local communities and now the Echo can reveal when your area will go dark.

Spring 2016

• Lincoln and North Hykeham

• Gainsborough

Summer 2016

• Louth, Caistor and Market Rasen

• Sleaford and Grantham

• Stamford, Bourne and Heckington

Autumn 2016

• Spalding, Crowland and Holbeach

• Boston and Gosberton

Winter 2016/17

• Skegness, Horncastle, Woodhall and Bardney

• Mablethorpe, Sutton on Sea, Ingoldmells and Chapel St Leonards

All residential areas across the county will be part of the new scheme, unless they meet one of the following criteria.

  • Has a significant record of night-time road traffic accidents, as advised by the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
  • Has a significant record of night-time crime, as advised by the Police or Community Safety Partnership
  • Has a care/nursing home, sheltered housing, or warden controlled accommodation
  • Has operational emergency service facility, including Fire, Ambulance, Police, Coast Guard, or Hospital with 24 hour A&E
  • Has safety road features, such as traffic calming, speed humps, zebra crossings etc.
  • Is the centre of a major urban area or larger town as referred to in LTP4 with a night time economy
  • Has permanent local authority or police CCTV surveillance equipment
  • Is a footpath and/or cycleway that links to a road that has all night lighting

The lighting changes began in April in Lincoln and will be completed county-wide by March 2017.

Lincolnshire County Council is responsible for more than eight in 10 streetlights across the county.

The authority has said there will be no changes to specific areas such where there are zebra crossings or speed humps and where there is a significant record of night-time crime.

Lights will also be kept on near sheltered housing, warden-controlled accommodation and care homes.

John Siddle, communications at the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership, said: "Highways did come to us for statistics – to look at accidents where the lack of street lights were a factor.

"From the data that we hold there is nothing to suggest that the reduction of street lights would increase collisions.

"There are places where highways have put lights in place because of an accident.

"I don't think anywhere is going to be dumped into blackness.

"Cars have headlights so they can help people see in the dark, that is what they are there for."

Richard Hardesty, senior project leader at Lincolnshire County Council, said: "At every location, we've given careful consideration to the effects of dimming, converting to part-night or switching off lights.

"In some places, we found that changes wouldn't be appropriate, so the lights will stay as they are.

"Following careful consideration, the majority of residential streets in urban areas will still be lit up until at least midnight throughout the county.

"Other local authorities have already made similar changes, they have seen little or no increase in crime or road accidents. In fact, some have seen a reduction.

"It is worth noting that there are significant areas of the county's highway network where there is no street lighting at all.

"Also, new residential roads adopted as highway by the county council over the last few years have been part-night lit."

How do you feel about the changes? Do you think it will have a negative or positive impact?

Let us know via nicholas.fletcher@lincolnshireecho.co.uk.