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Fault categories and definitions

Find out the different levels of faults that can happen to street furniture and fittings
Call Type Definition
Emergency
  • Street light or illuminated sign knocked down
  • Three or more adjacent street lights unlit
  • Street light door missing
  • Hanging lantern or bowl
  • Involves the emergency services
  • Any risk of electric shock
  • Damaged apparatus posing a risk to the public
  • School crossing patrol warning Light (in term time)
Urgent
  • Apparatus leaning more than twenty degrees out of vertical alignment
  • Illuminated bollard shell missing;
  • Obscene or racist graffiti
  • Illuminated bollard knocked down
  • Missing Belisha beacon globe or a sign plate
  • Illuminated sign plate bent away fromroad users
Non-emergency
  • Non-illuminated sign plate bent away from road users
  • Non-offensive graffiti on any apparatus
  • Unauthorised attachments on any apparatus
  • Failure to replace any anti-climbing measures on any apparatus
  • The Luminaire or bracket on any apparatus is not vertically and horizontally aligned
  • Authority attachment not attached in accordance with Schedule 4
  • Lamp forming any part of a lighting point is not operating within specified parameters
  • a snagging item that has not been rectified within the time specified
  • Twisted attachments, including sign plates and lighting units
  • Any material damage to apparatus missing or incorrect numbering
  • Photometric performance failure
  • Structural and mechanical failure
  • Electrical inspection and test failure
  • Protective paint system failure

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