Street Design is pleased to announce new designs of wood and metal planters featuring integrated lighting as standard. These designs make full use of safe, eco-friendly, low-power, low-voltage, high-efficiency LED lighting with a broad choice of placements, brightness and colours.

Our LED lighting units can handle all of the tasks formerly undertaken by tungsten, halide and fluorescent lamps, and out-perform them in every department. They are extremely flexible - we can supply almost any configuration of lighting to a client's specification using our standard lighting units in these purpose-designed planters.

The lighting units can be powered by either a low voltage DC supply or mains electricity. The choice of light levels and power units is also broad. Our standard power supply pumps out 12 Volts at 4 Amps, in LED terms enough for a very bright planter. The entire range is from 1 Watt to 1,000 Watts.

This page outlines the different types of lighting available and shows examples of the uses to which the lighting units can be put.

Our new planters can be fitted with plant lighters (to illuminate the plants, as in the picture above), uplighters (spot lights to pick out taller plants), top lighters (as in the picture opposite, to light the sides of the planter), plinth lighting (to light the floor area around the planter, pictured below) and overhead lighting (a mini lampost to pour light down onto the plants and, if desired, the planter and the surrounding area).

With integrated lighting-array recesses and built-in cable looms any combination of lighting effects can be custom-installed during manufacture to precisely match the site requirements. All of our lighting effects can be preset (just an on/off switch) or adjustable (using PWM dimmers either locally or remotely).

Our lighting can be used in a variety of ways to achieve a broad range of objectives. In public areas with dim ambient lighting the smallest hint of light on the edges of street furniture can contribute to the safety of motorists and pedestrians. Full-on plinth lighting can illuminate pavements and walkways over a diameter of several meters. Overhead planter lighting can use a conical reflector to illuminate only the plants within, or a domed reflector to spill light into the surrounding area for the convenience of pedestrians or for the aesthetic effect.
Illuminating an entire panel can provide mood lighting, day or evening. Halo-lighting a customised laser-cut panel or backlighting a printed acrylic panel can provide information, advertising, directions or, with a symbol or two, even traffic control for a car park.

Downlighting recessed into the capping provides an interesting, subtle touch of colour to the panels of this stainless steel planter, pictured left.

The brushed stainless steel planters in these pictures are lit by RGB downlighters recessed in the capping. The metalwork and the lighting appear changed with this configuration - both are softened, the metal looks warmer, the light is more of a glow than a beam.

The picture below (taken from a dog's point of view) is of a planter of the same design but finished with mirrored stainless steel - it reveals the true nature of the lights and the panels.

You can see more examples of our lit planters, view some of our custom lighting panels or read technical specifications using the buttons below.