Best practice – lighting examples
Use the following guidance when thinking about adapting existing lighting or fitting new units.
Here’s a handy home audit guide to follow from DarkSky (formerly International Dark-Sky Association). Be sure to consult a qualified electrician for installation and a lighting engineer for any operational health and safety needs.
Carefully chosen lighting fixtures will help avoid glaring untargeted and wasted light which can cause disorientation and safety hazards. Instead shielded lights with appropriate controls ensure that light is targeted where it is needed, when it is needed and at a level suitable to the need.
How else you can help
In addition to your own actions at home, you can ask your MP to join the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies. By encouraging your MP to do so you will help to strengthen their voice and introduce legislation to protect our dark skies for generations to come.
There's more information on light pollution through the UK Dark Skies Partnership, an informal collaboration of professional organisations, institutions and UK protected landscapes. Its specific commitments are the protection and improvement of dark skies over both DarkSky Places and others, and the progressive reduction of both urban and rural light pollution through better lighting practice.