Properties to buy in London Futher restoration work has again been necessary and by May 2009 was completed, replacing the pump system, as only one of three pumps was still functioning. The new pump is capable of sending an 80-foot jet of water into the air.[18] A new LED lighting system was also installed during this restoration to reduce the cost of lighting maintenance properties to buy in London as the old incandscent bulbs cost ?1000 to replace and were failing regularly.

The new lighting has been designed with the London 2012 Olympics in mind and for the first time will project many different colours and combinations onto the fountains. [19] In addition, the new properties to buy in London lighting system has a much lower energy requirement and will reduce the carbon footprint of the lighting by around 90%.[20]

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There will be properties to buy in London a live feed of the plinth on the Internet sponsored by TV channel Sky Arts.[13][14] Gormley has said: "In the context of Trafalgar Square with its military, valedictory and male historical statues, this elevation of everyday life to the position formerly occupied by monumental art allows us to reflect on the diversity, properties to buy in London vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society. It's about people coming together to do something extraordinary and unpredictable. It could be tragic but it could also be funny."[14]

A Greater London Authority spokesman said: "There are many worthy suggestions for statues on the fourth plinth and some people properties to buy in London feel passionately about each of them. All proposals will be judged on their merits including its current use as one of the most high profile sites for contemporary public art in London. The cost of erecting the current work on the plinth is ?270,000. The cost of a permanent monument is likely to be considerably more."[15]

[edit] Fountains
The new LED lighting in the fountains

When the square was first built in 1845, the fountains' primary purpose was not aesthetics, but rather to reduce the open space available properties to buy in London and the risk of riotous assembly.[16] They were originally fed by a steam engine behind the National Gallery from an artesian well underground. However, the engine were generally considered to be underpowered, so in the late 1930s the decision was made to replace them with stone basins and a new pump. At a cost of almost ?50,000, the fountains were replaced with a Grade II listed properties to buy in London design by Sir Edwin Lutyens and the old fountains were sold to Ottawa in Canada where they are still in use today. [17]