A total of 15,000 new LED street lights are to be installed throughout Liverpool over the next year.

Phase one of the £7m programme began in Fazakerley, in June 2014, with 12,000 lights changed across 1,800 streets reducing carbon emissions by 1,500 tonnes and saving the city more than half a million pounds.

Work on the second phase is to begin where the city council has developed its Home for A Pound scheme. The programme will then roll out to Croxteth and the rest of the city before ending in Speke this Autumn.

Liverpool City Council has made the move away from the orange sodium lights in its drive to make Liverpool a greener city and cut the city’s carbon footprint.

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Approximately £2.6 million is spent by Liverpool City Council per annum on the energy costs associated with running the 57,000 street lights and illuminated signs and bollards across the city.

Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson said: "LED street lighting not only improves the lighting across the city it makes our streets safer and our city cleaner.

"Already through phase one we have made our city a healthier place to live by saving 1,500 tonnes of carbon emissions and achieved savings of more than half a million pounds.

"Our maintenance costs will also reduce by £2.7m overall over the next five years once all of the street lights have been converted. We can then reinvest this saving in to other key services and communities at a time when unprecedented cuts are forcing us to make some heart-breaking decisions."

Liverpool City Council is working with SSE Enterprise to roll out the new phase of LED street lighting.