Penny Clark
LIGHTING DESIGN LTD
Street lighting design · in the industry since 1992

Roads lit right, first time.

Road, public realm and active travel lighting design for developers, consultancies and local authorities, from a designer who has worked on both sides of the approval process.

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Services

What I design

Each package covers the lighting, the electrics and the paperwork the highway authority will ask for, from concept through to detailed design.

Road lighting for developments

Residential estate roads in Wales and Northern England, and highway works for retail sites including Aldi stores nationwide.

Section 38 & Section 278

Local authority support

Development management for street lighting: checking and approving developer designs against the authority's specification and public realm guide.

Development management

Active travel & cycle routes

Lighting for cycleways and walking routes, including junctions and signalised or non-signalised crossings, with site surveys and the full design package.

Concept to detailed design

Public realm & architectural

Town centres, civic squares and heritage structures, designed to be fit for purpose and maintainable by the authority.

Public realm guides

Lighting impact assessments

Assessments for planning, and designs for ecologically sensitive locations using controls such as motion sensors.

ILP GN01 & GN08

Electrical design & LED upgrades

Supply and cabling design, LED lantern replacement schemes, and preparation and assessment of lantern tenders.

BS 7671 · BS 5489-1
Projects

Selected work

St Helens · Liverpool · Halton

Active Travel Routes

Lighting for several active travel schemes, working directly with each local authority from concept to detailed design, including junctions and crossings.

Enfield, London

Enfield Town placemaking & cycleway

Public realm lighting in five locations and a highway improvement design with an updated cycle route, plus a cycleway through environmentally sensitive areas.

Chester

Newgate Bridge

Architectural lighting for a protected structure, developed with English Heritage and detailed to keep roosting pigeons off the equipment.

Cheshire West and Chester

Principal road LED upgrade

Tender documents, assessment of submissions and LED lantern design for all designated roads to BS 5489.

Brownhills, Walsall

Brownhills Civic Square

Amenity lighting for the square and electrical design for the market stalls.

Wetherby

Privas Way lighting impact assessment

An assessment for a petrol station after the council's planning department rejected the original application.

About

Penny Clark

Principal Designer and Director. I have worked in street lighting since 1992, starting as an AutoCAD technician on the Manchester motorway network and later serving as Clerk of Works on the M60 Junction 18 construction. I have worked for consultancies and local authorities, so I know what an approving engineer looks for. I am a past Chair of the ILP's North West Region and an active member of the ILP and its committees.

ILP Affiliate Member since 1996HERS registered · ECS Approved PersonWorking towards IEngBS 7671 · Inspection & testingBA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design
  1. Penny Clark Lighting Design Ltd

    Principal Designer & Director. Part-time secondment to Cheshire West and Chester Council, and lighting support for consultancies and developers.

  2. Ringway Jacobs / Cheshire East Highways

    Principal Designer. Led the design team, the LED replacement scheme and the councils' lighting specifications.

  3. Cheshire West and Chester Council

    Senior Designer. Managed all lighting designs and development management duties.

  4. WSP

    Senior Designer for TfL and local authorities, with secondments to several councils.

  5. Atkins Odlin Consulting Engineers

    From AutoCAD technician to lighting designer on Highways Agency motorway schemes.

Contact

Got a site that needs lighting?

Send over a site plan and the highway authority, and I will come back with a fee proposal and programme.

Name
Penny Clark
Email
penny.clark@pcldes.co.uk
Phone
07759 081974