I was always down to the weather.
Every single complaint backed up by photographic 'evidence' had the pictures taken on evening with dense low hanging misty cloud.
All the car and street lights had halos round them, nobody was insisting they be turned off as well.
As already said re the...
Unlike most other contributors to this thread I'm not a meteorologist, or environment health officer, or pollution expert, or fully qualified in sports pitch maintenance, so my opinions aren't as important as everybody else.
But it does strike me as a little obvious:-
- Going to higher ground...
As referenced earlier, Chichester's light pollution is clearly visible from Clumping, some 5 miles away, so clear in fact I'd say you could double the distance were it not for all the other light pollution further afield.