Street and public lighting

We manage the provision of street and public lighting with the aim of:

• promoting visual amenity
• develop a sense of place
• being a leader in practical urban design
• enhancing cultural activities
• ensuring the safe effective movement of vehicular, cycling and pedestrian traffic at night
• discouraging illegal and anti-social acts.

Types of lighting

There are two types of lights throughout our municipality:

1. Residential street lights
   These unmetered lights in residential streets, on main roads, highways, and at some freeway interchanges, and are mounted to power poles or are part of dedicated light pole.
   
   There are over 30,000 of these across Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.
   
   They are maintained by either Powercor or VicRoads:
• Powercor repair Residential Street, Main Roads and Highway lighting. 
  
  Report a faulty light on one of these roads to Powercor or by calling 132 412.
• VicRoads repair lighting along the Geelong Ring Road Freeway, including at interchanges with our roads. 
  
  Report a faulty light along the Ring Road or at an interchange to VicRoads or by calling 131 170.
2. Public lighting
   These consist of over 2,500 lanterns and are either mains powered (a metered service with a switchboard) or are solar.
   
   These lights may be:
• pole top mounted, either flood or street-style
• ground mounted, either flood or uplights
• bollards.

Lighting locations

Our lights are located throughout the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula including some of these notable locations:

• Geelong Waterfront
• Little Malop Street Green Spine
• Geelong Botanic Gardens
• Eastern Park
• Limeburners Point
• Johnstone Park
• Kardinia Park
• St Helens Park

In addition, our public lighting is located at:

• boat ramps (please note some are managed separately by Barwon Coast or Bellarine Bayside)
• parks
• war memorials
• carparks for leisure and recreation facilities, child and family health centres, and community hubs and halls
• shopping precincts
• residential areas where mains power is not available or suitable.

Report a Public Lighting fault

Or call us on 03 5272 5272.

Street lighting considerations

There are some sections of our municipality where the provision of street lighting is neither practical nor appropriate.

Street lighting is considered on the basis of Australian Standards and our own Public Street Lighting Policy.

Our policy states that energy efficient lighting will now be considered to be installed for replacements or lighting in any existing or new residential developments.

Related policies

• Public street lighting policy