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Planned System Maintenance - Limited Service

Sunderland City Council will be carrying out planned system maintenance from 12 noon on Friday 5th June until 7am on Tuesday 9th June. During this period, we will only be able to respond to urgent enquiries. If your enquiry is not urgent, please contact us before or after these times when full services will be available. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Street lighting

Aurora Sunderland Streetlighting Limited (Aurora) is fully responsible for providing and maintaining street lighting on behalf of Sunderland City Council.

Aurora is the appointed Asset Management Contractor for the Sunderland Street Lighting and Highway Signs PFI Project.

The project comprises of a five year Core Investment Programme and a twenty year Term Maintenance Programme.

The Core Investment Programme involves the replacement of 31,120 street lighting columns and 4,600 highway signs in accordance with the latest European standards.

Information is available on work which is currently underway to replace street lighting heads.

Report a problem with street lights