mike wrote in
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On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 5:20:45 PM UTC, Neddie Seagoon wrote:
Folks,

I live in a sheltered housing development directly adjacent to the
village's football club. So far, we've got along just fine with the
club and its players and we'd like that to continue. However, the
club has submitted an application to install floodlights which is
giving us cause for concern...

Can't help with the technicalities but, for what it's worth, our
previous house backed on to a rugby pitch and the floodlights were
never a problem. I don't recall even being aware they were switched
on with the upstairs curtains drawn.

These would've been quite old floodlights and I doubt that anyone
thought much about light pollution when they were installed.



When I did stage lighting I was very careful not to all allow scatter. We
had barn-door-shutters on many lights to carefully shape the beam. Some
installations now just seem to try to "light up the air". Bulkhead type
fittings in large car-parks are the worse. 50% of the light merely escaping
upwards.