The Popular Party of Yaiza has presented a motion to the plenary session next Thursday for the municipal government to address the request being made by many residents of the municipality to regulate the lighting schedule in playgrounds and outdoor sports courts. This measure is in line with the guidelines for energy saving and against light pollution.
The Popular Party echoes the complaints of a group of residents from Femés, who have also been joined by residents from Uga, Las Breñas, and Playa Blanca, who denounce the light pollution generated by the LED streetlights installed to illuminate the sports courts in the various localities, which they claim "stay on all night long, in the case of Uga and Playa Blanca, or until ten o'clock in Las Breñas."
The citizen mobilization, carried out through social media, began last July, when LED lights were added to the pre-existing lights in the Femés playground, thus doubling the illumination. A situation that could be repeated when the sports court lights are put into operation. The Popular Party of Yaiza believes that "ten o'clock at night is an appropriate time to turn off the internal lighting of outdoor facilities in winter, and it could be extended a little longer in summer when children and young people stay out longer."
The Popular Party's initiative clearly specifies that the measure, subject to technical criteria, would only affect the interior lighting and in no case the perimeter urban lighting, which, for the safety of pedestrians and as required by law, must remain on.
