The council resurfaced and repaved our road so that it looks really wonderful. Prior to that the pavement had been pock marked with splodges of black tarmac which looked really ugly. The tarmac only went when the new paving was laid.

As soon as the new lamposts were announced I wrote and asked whether the new holes would be filled with tarmac which would have made the new paving look more like the old. The reply was that they probably didn't need to change the posts in our road. Well that was a relief, of sorts.

The new lights might be nice or nasty according to taste. They are certainly cheap, so a cheap filling of tarmac would seem about par for the course.