Part L insists you install a certain proportion of low energy fittings.
These are specifically designed to look as ugly as possible, not be
compatible with standard lamp shades and require expensive, hideous,
difficult to obtain tubes. Rather than install these, has anyone considered
using some sort of current limiting devices that would enable a maximum of,
say, 25W (after initial 3 minute warm up) to be used with a standard bayonet
fitting, so that you can use nice looking, cheap, easy to obtain low energy
light bulbs?

Christian.