Milestone Infrastructure, a division of M Group Services' Transport Division, has been awarded a contract by Gloucestershire County Council to manage and upgrade street lighting throughout Gloucestershire.

The £13.5 million contract is set to run for five and a half years with a potential extension of up to an additional 10 years.

Milestone will be responsible for maintaining over 62,000 streetlights and 8,000 illuminated signs and bollards located on the highway network within Gloucestershire. Works undertaken will include lighting outages, annual cyclical maintenance and the completion of an annual programme of street lighting replacements for expired equipment.

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The new award builds on Milestone's longstanding, nine-year relationship with Gloucestershire County Council to maintain existing equipment and deliver a LED replacement project.

This has resulted in a more reliable service, reducing lighting outages by 50% and energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 70%.

Simon Woodford, Milestone Infrastructure’s Business Director for Street Lighting, said: "I'm extremely proud to continue our partnership with Gloucestershire County Council to deliver this key service across the county. Our teams are ready 24/7, 365 days a year to attend faults and emergencies, keeping the county in light, reducing carbon emissions and protecting the communities in which we work."