To want to ban security lights

[Glasgoow]

Why do people install them and not dip them so that all the light only shines on their own property? Also why don't they dip the sensors so every time someone walks past on the pavement they go off?

Can't think they help security at all as they are always frigging going off so people will ignore them. If anything would make it easier for a burger to see what he is doing.

Neighbour refuses to dip his, so most of the light shines in my bedroom window and now its dark earlyim having to move rooms. Council have asked him to adjust it, he just turns down the sensitivity then a month later its back like a second sun.

Have you not heard of curtains?

We had this kids couldn't sleep we got blackout blinds enragingly selfish of our back to back terraced neighbour some threw stones at it til it broke.........

now its dark early

Is it?

YANBU. They're terrible.

You can complain to your LA if you're affected. It's under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. See this link here.

This is classed as antisocial behaviour so keep complaining to the council, eventually they will have to do more than write him a letter.

now its dark early

Is it?

Given September 23rd this year is the autumnal equinox, OP is right. Sunset for me tonight is 7.45pm.

It's still light for at least an hour after sunset though.

Completely agree, OP. There is a huge difference between normal outside lights and these power search lights. My neighbour at the back installed one of the latter as soon as he moved in. And yes, Ceres, I have heard of curtains; I had a black out blind covered by curtains at DD's bedroom window - I now have the black out blind, and two sets of lined curtains sewn together back to back with a fleece sewn in between them

It's still light for at least an hour after sunset though.

To an extent yes, though I'm not sure it adds anything to the discussion. Light shining on and off in to the window of a bedroom or a living room is a PITA, and rightly the government have given LAs enforcement powers under the Act I referred to above.

Agree annoying. Someone down the road from us has one, at least 50m away, still shines through the blind in our bathroom and into DS' room, it's really annoying and I fantasise about getting an air rifle and shooting it out. I'm sure the sound of the bulb breaking would be really satisfying!

""It's still light for at least an hour after sunset though.""

It depends on where you live, we don't all live in the same place.

OP, I agree with you, the light should only go outside the property boundary, if there is a work van parked there etc.

Oh, I don't know.
Every time we come home in the dark, next door's over-sensitive one lights up our drive. Saves us leaving a light on!

They should come with simple instructions to set up the damn things right!

Or only be sold by approved fitters who can point them in the right direction...

Just get some blackout blinds! I don't see the problem. If they left all the lights on in their own house until late and didn't close the curtains (which they are within their rights to do) what would be the difference.

God people love to moan about the most inconsequential things.

And unless it's shining in the back of your house (which is a bit different) - what is the difference between this and when street lamps were on at night time?

Go out one evening and walk up and down for a few hours. The bulb will blow eventually

yanbu though I'd happily swap. My neighbours have a solar powered lighthouse in their front garden, the moment it starts going dark the flashing light starts.

And unless it's shining in the back of your house (which is a bit different) - what is the difference between this and when street lamps were on at night time? Street lights don't switch themselves on and off every few minutes. And they are far far brighter than street lights and indoor lights.

solar powered lighthouse

Dear god. I'd be forced to make that a beer trophy. into the nearest skip

Street lights are very dim. This has to be a 500w bulb.

Blackout blinds, and double lined curtains as I like my room pitch back. Still when the light is on as my room is so dark it lights it up.

These lights are focused powerful lights, they have a refecltive casing to make it even more powerful in its beam. Totally different to having an Indoor light on.

The one shining into the back of my house was way more powerful than him just leaving his lights on it was more like stadium flood lights. It came thru blackout blinds everything we put up and meant all of us had to sleep in the front bedroom. It also flashed on and off all night as cats/foxes set it off those saying it's an inconsequential petty thing to moan about clearly have no experience. Op you have my sympathy keep going round, keep calling the council it is anti-social behaviour.

Absolutely!. It's like having some annoying t**t sat in the corner of your bedroom turning a light on and off all blinking night.

I sort of agree with you...I have three neighbours who have what I call the searchlight type..next doors I can see from my living room, across the roads lights up the edge of my bedroom (blackout blind doesn't go to the edge) everytime a fox or cat triggers it and other across the road shines into our downstairs bedroom which luckily isnt used much

We have a nice sensible light like this... It does help we have a slight slope up form our garage but the light is positioned to light up the front of the garage...not the whole flaming street