If you go onto the Councils website, they are lending £4.6 million interest free to a firm to come and fit new LED streetlamps, going to take three years they hope to save £700,0000 by then, got thousands to replace/renew. Yet they have already spent £3 million two/three years back. lets hope the money lent is repaid.
As for the potholes were're wait and see, our roads are in a shocking state? filling holes isn't going to make them better.