mash123

I agree.I have no issue with the quality of lighting as mentioned. The lighting is good - it is the absense of any consultation on such an unsympathetic design.If there was a similar Orwellian concensus to the scheme then fine. I'm a winge. If not then its up for discussion surely? Giant Semen lamps with lizards strapped to them good? I know, bright red tarmac for us zombies to distinguish the road from the pavement. Even more, when a visiting driver swerves in response to seeing an alien invasion and ploughs through a crowd of reptile enthusiasts there would be no need to hose down the road. Don't ask though, we don't know, just install it.

The more I think about it, the more these things irritate me. If the purpose of the 'upgrade' is to provide a more discrete softer lighting and reduce light pollution then why compensate by over designing the lamp iself. General thinking is that street furntiure should blend in to or compliment the existing architecture and not conspicuousy litter the pavement.If their was a project to replant the road with some mature trees would Southwark daub 'Tree Here' in neon up each trunk? I am sure there is a well meaning counciller behind all this but really their licence should have stopped with the technology and not their tacky aesthetic. Are we to pop our post into the mouth of a seated porcelain cheetah next or take a rest on a bronze cupped hand or swan's wing.I'm all for the odd singular bit of bad public art but this is a repeated attack. The design lends itself less to some sort of sprouting bud and more to something creepily spermic.Is this a product of some lonely designer? Was this scheme decided in private?Southwark should wash their hands here.I remember reading about a theme park in Holland based on self-pleasuring that would jump at some knocked down perimeter lighting. I don't wish to sound so reactionary - I am all for the technology behing the lighting but the steelwork itself should go. ''Come find thee scrap theives and smelteth.''

I've been away from the area for sometime and drove sdown Ondine Road/Area on SUnday to see the new street lighting/Day of the Triffids/War of the worlds - what have they done? It's horrific.Whats with the iguana,chameleon thing?