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A303Paul · **Joined:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 06:49 **Posts:** 3456

As they stopped being installed in the late '90s have these now been banned and if so by whom, when?

Haydn1971 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:05

Not "banned" as such, but concrete isn't specified as an option in the Specification for Works, most Authorities use this document as a basis for their own contract documents, as to when it occurred, one of the old boys might recall.

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Gareth · **Posted:** Sat Feb 25, 2012 01:31

Was it as recently as that? I'm sure Liverpool stopped putting in new concrete as far ago as the mid-80s.

A303Paul · **Joined:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 06:49 **Posts:** 3456

I'm sure that West Sussex used them well into the 1990's.

Bryn666 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 21:09

The last brand new installations were in the mid 1990s - I remember casual concrete replacements going up in Blackburn around 1994.

The A34 Wilmslow Bypass has concrete sign supports - one of the youngest roads here to have them and that opened around 1995.

Truvelo · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 21:15

The same around here too. Concrete columns with Alpha 1's were going up as late as the mid 90's.

Ben302 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 20:40

The last concrete columns installed here were in 1990 in various new build housing estates dotted about Gillingham and Rainham and were CU columns with outreach brackets like this although zoom in from this image to the next (1991) build phase of this particular area used CU Hockeystick columns

Glenn A · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 13:00

Last used in Copeland in the late seventies. However, many still survive in Whitehaven on the B5295 and the B5343 and on the Hillcrest and Richmond estates.

Xube · **Joined:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 20:38 **Posts:** 5

In my area of Bedfordshire, i remember, either late 90's or perhaps even in 2000, they replaced old concrete columns with a concrete swan neck and with a G&C Z5590 lantern, to a new concrete column with a metal sleeve, (and short bracket) with a Thorn Beta 5 lantern.

poshbakerloo · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 23:39

Doncaster has a good example of concrete street lights designed for dual carriage ways (Not sure what the technical term is for them) But you don't often see them around...

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=53.515799, ... 18,,0,0.56

Paninaro · **Joined:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 18:40 **Posts:** 17

Bryn666 wrote:

The last brand new installations were in the mid 1990s - I remember casual concrete replacements going up in Blackburn around 1994.

The A34 Wilmslow Bypass has concrete sign supports - one of the youngest roads here to have them and that opened around 1995.

I don't suppose there's any pics of that being built knocking around?

I can recall it being constructed and they had an on-site asphalt plant and several old site lorries transporting the material for the roads.

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