October 2007/UK Local Government



Changes in rank are compared to September 2007/UK Local Government. Since then, 1 site entered the survey and 4 sites could not be included in the rankings (same since last).

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Scores

Percentage Failures




Rank Name Exact overall
+ 13 Easington 9.90
+ 102 South Bedfordshire 9.77
+ 4 Stockton-on-Tees 9.77
- 1 Thurrock 9.53
+ 51 Mid Bedfordshire 9.40
+ 5 East Renfrewshire 9.30
+ 32 Thanet 9.21
+ 1 Tynedale 9.20
+ 11 Portsmouth 8.97
- 9 Herefordshire 8.93
+ 125 Camden 8.92
+ 30 Aylesbury Vale 8.87
- 5 Milton Keynes 8.83
- 13 Barking & Dagenham 8.75
+ 20 Stafford 8.75
+ 77 Rutland 8.74
+ 9 New Forest 8.69
- 5 Restormel 8.68
+ 17 Salford 8.67
+ 51 Shrewsbury & Atcham 8.65
- 1 Slough 8.55
- 18 South Norfolk 8.52
+ 31 Merton 8.50
+ 32 Eden 8.42
- 8 East Staffordshire 8.40
- 16 Stroud 8.29
- 9 Southampton 8.28
- 22 South Tyneside 8.24
- 10 Richmond upon Thames 8.24
- 15 Melton 8.21
+ 33 North Devon 8.21
+ 4 Taunton Deane 8.14
+ 12 Wolverhampton 8.08
+ 32 Redbridge 8.04
+ 17 Eastleigh 8.01
- 4 Woking 8.00
- 14 Oldham 7.99
same Hammersmith & Fulham 7.97
+ 36 Wycombe 7.97
+ 33 North Warwickshire 7.90
+ 36 North East Derbyshire 7.90
+ 11 Mid Sussex 7.87
+ 19 Kirklees 7.87
- 20 Rhondda Cynon Taff 7.87
+ 25 Liverpool 7.82
- 40 Gedling 7.82
+ 39 Surrey 7.78
+ 2 Shetland Islands 7.76
- 3 Angus 7.73
- 8 Knowsley 7.72
+ 36 East Ayrshire 7.69
+ 11 Solihull 7.67
- 20 Shepway 7.66
- 42 Adur 7.62
+ 4 Havering 7.61
+ 39 Waverley 7.61
- 28 Bristol 7.59
+ 48 Hambleton 7.56
- 43 Wrexham 7.55
+ 81 Bracknell Forest 7.52
- 38 Elmbridge 7.52
+ 27 West Dorset 7.52
- 32 South Shropshire 7.50
+ 11 Broadland 7.50
+ 337 Teignbridge 7.49
- 25 Hounslow 7.47
- 27 Wear Valley 7.46
+ 77 Hastings 7.45
+ 13 Caradon 7.43
- 22 Broxbourne 7.31
+ 63 Stratford-on-Avon 7.31
- 4 Lewes 7.30
+ 26 Mansfield 7.29
+ 16 Durham City 7.27
- 10 Wigan 7.22
- 29 Barrow-in-Furness 7.22
+ 42 South Bucks 7.21
+ 34 Ribble Valley 7.21
- 1 Rossendale 7.18
- 1 Shropshire 7.16
+ 40 Stirling 7.15
+ 6 Tonbridge and Malling 7.12
- 34 Leicestershire 7.11
+ 12 North Down 7.09
+ 19 High Peak 7.09
- 31 North Norfolk 7.07
- 64 Surrey Heath 7.03
- 30 Belfast 7.02
+ 96 Rochford 6.98
- 21 Isles of Scilly 6.94
+ 7 Runnymede 6.93
- 48 Charnwood 6.89
+ 33 Nottinghamshire 6.86
+ 13 South Ribble 6.84
+ 6 Fife 6.81
- 13 Vale of Glamorgan 6.78
+ 65 Renfrewshire 6.78
+ 72 Colchester 6.77
+ 40 North Lincolnshire 6.76
- 70 East Dunbartonshire 6.75
+ 46 Wansbeck 6.75
+ 189 Tendring 6.73
+ 2 South Staffordshire 6.70
- 12 Dover 6.68
+ 3 Spelthorne 6.68
- 21 North Shropshire 6.62
+ 4 Kensington & Chelsea 6.62
- 36 Rotherham 6.61
+ 91 Braintree 6.60
- 29 Redcar and Cleveland 6.56
+ 7 Sunderland 6.53
+ 51 Pendle 6.52
- 62 Neath Port Talbot 6.51
+ 35 Calderdale 6.50
- 5 Scottish Borders 6.46
- 3 Broxtowe 6.44
same Breckland 6.43
- 34 Canterbury 6.43
- 59 Bridgnorth 6.43
+ 26 Blaenau Gwent 6.42
+ 33 Dundee 6.41
+ 3 Chester 6.41
+ 118 Chichester 6.40
- 2 Scarborough 6.40
- 92 North Cornwall 6.37
+ 30 South Kesteven 6.35
- 27 Staffordshire 6.34
+ 38 Horsham 6.34
+ 108 Worcestershire 6.33
+ 2 Dungannon 6.33
- 40 Dartford 6.32
+ 86 Gwynedd 6.26
+ 5 Bedfordshire 6.25
- 11 Windsor and Maidenhead 6.24
- 59 Aberdeenshire 6.24
+ 19 Leeds 6.23
- 22 Warwick 6.23
- 44 Wakefield 6.22
- 23 Congleton 6.22
- 11 Isle of Wight 6.19
- 6 Hillingdon 6.18
- 62 Hertfordshire 6.18
+ 49 South Holland 6.14
- 2 Tameside 6.14
+ 6 Kettering 6.14
+ 36 Isle of Anglesey 6.12
+ 56 North Dorset 6.10
+ 87 West Lindsey 6.10
- 47 Wirral 6.09
+ 82 Bromsgrove 6.08
- 8 Oswestry 6.07
+ 65 Lincoln 6.07
- 125 Wyre 6.02
- 4 East Hertfordshire 6.00
- 11 West Oxfordshire 5.99
- 29 Newark and Sherwood 5.98
- 27 Harrow 5.95
- 96 Tandridge 5.95
- 132 Derbyshire 5.92
+ 16 Banbridge 5.88
- 28 Wealden 5.87
+ 8 Highland 5.86
- 14 Sefton 5.86
+ 36 Worthing 5.86
- 1 Exeter 5.85
- 7 North Kesteven 5.84
+ 41 Walsall 5.83
+ 41 Buckinghamshire 5.80
+ 22 Gloucester 5.79
+ 85 St Helens 5.76
- 3 Lancaster 5.76
+ 71 Bassetlaw 5.76
+ 11 Derbyshire Dales 5.76
+ 64 Dacorum 5.75
+ 23 Wellingborough 5.74
- 15 South Cambridgeshire 5.70
- 5 Purbeck 5.70
+ 76 Maidstone 5.68
+ 1 Rugby 5.67
+ 26 North Yorkshire 5.67
+ 95 Kerrier 5.66
+ 1 Mid Suffolk 5.63
+ 45 Penwith 5.62
+ 60 Lichfield 5.62
+ 26 Hyndburn 5.61
+ 197 Staffordshire Moorlands 5.60
+ 18 Bedford 5.60
+ 203 Sevenoaks 5.59
+ 11 Perth & Kinross 5.59
- 62 Hartlepool 5.59
new Trafford 5.58
+ 3 Derby 5.58
+ 74 Sedgemoor 5.57
- 37 Northampton 5.53
- 30 Gloucestershire 5.52
- 59 Moyle 5.52
same Vale Royal 5.52
- 40 Luton 5.51
- 47 Cheshire 5.50
+ 48 Crawley 5.46
+ 28 Bolsover 5.44
- 23 East Lindsey 5.44
+ 39 Redditch 5.42
+ 129 Haringey 5.42
+ 17 Limavady 5.41
- 7 Cannock Chase 5.40
+ 141 Westminster 5.40
- 21 States of Jersey 5.39
- 34 Allerdale 5.38
- 96 Tunbridge Wells 5.37
- 42 Bradford 5.37
+ 37 Swindon 5.35
+ 13 Eastbourne 5.35
+ 57 Malvern Hills 5.34
- 95 Coventry 5.33
- 26 Castle Morpeth 5.32
- 121 Stockport 5.31
+ 18 Gosport 5.31
+ 5 Ashford 5.30
- 27 Falkirk 5.28
- 43 Peterborough 5.27
- 9 Ceredigion 5.27
- 13 Wiltshire 5.27
- 157 Northumberland 5.26
- 39 York 5.26
+ 36 Lambeth 5.26
- 13 West Somerset 5.25
- 13 Kennet 5.25
+ 78 Suffolk Coastal 5.23
- 14 Strabane 5.20
- 19 Wandsworth 5.20
- 80 Ealing 5.19
- 93 Carlisle 5.19
+ 35 Hackney 5.19
- 59 Bexley 5.18
- 32 Macclesfield 5.18
+ 118 Weymouth & Portland 5.17
+ 32 Richmondshire 5.14
+ 141 Bath & North East Somerset 5.13
+ 21 Mendip 5.09
+ 25 Reigate and Banstead 5.09
- 82 Carrick 5.08
+ 4 Harborough 5.07
+ 73 Lancashire 5.07
+ 35 Chelmsford 5.05
- 73 Essex 5.05
- 138 Hinckley & Bosworth 5.04
- 26 West Berkshire 5.04
- 61 East Sussex 5.04
- 126 East Northamptonshire 5.03
+ 14 Suffolk 5.01
+ 203 Inverclyde 4.96
- 64 South Lakeland 4.96
- 25 Newcastle upon Tyne 4.96
- 60 Cherwell 4.96
+ 104 Castle Point 4.94
- 10 West Dunbartonshire 4.94
- 51 Harlow 4.94
- 34 Forest Heath 4.90
+ 32 North Wiltshire 4.87
+ 37 Wokingham 4.85
+ 24 Southend-on-Sea 4.83
- 5 Coleraine 4.82
- 5 Ellesmere Port & Neston 4.81
+ 176 Castlereagh 4.79
- 71 Chiltern 4.78
- 47 South Somerset 4.77
- 12 Chorley 4.77
- 95 Poole 4.77
- 37 St Albans 4.76
- 2 London Mayor 4.76
+ 1 Preston 4.74
- 92 South Derbyshire 4.74
+ 46 Enfield 4.72
- 108 Larne 4.72
- 26 Nuneaton & Bedworth 4.70
- 57 South Ayrshire 4.70
- 148 North Hertfordshire 4.68
- 39 Derwentside 4.63
- 57 Amber Valley 4.61
+ 45 Kingston upon Thames 4.61
- 7 Burnley 4.60
+ 12 Teesdale 4.58
+ 67 Three Rivers 4.58
- 3 Erewash 4.57
- 22 Omagh 4.54
+ 23 North West Leicestershire 4.54
+ 15 Brighton and Hove 4.54
- 5 Test Valley 4.53
+ 21 Lisburn 4.53
- 27 Waltham Forest 4.53
+ 5 Crewe and Nantwich 4.52
- 4 Ballymena 4.51
+ 2 East Devon 4.49
+ 30 Waveney 4.49
- 69 Lewisham 4.48
- 14 Hampshire 4.48
- 21 North Lanarkshire 4.47
+ 15 Darlington 4.47
+ 49 Barnet 4.47
+ 15 Harrogate 4.46
- 23 Somerset 4.46
- 50 Wychavon 4.43
- 60 Chester-le-Street 4.42
- 12 Alnwick 4.42
- 49 East Cambridgeshire 4.41
+ 16 Oxford 4.41
- 69 Berwick-Upon-Tweed 4.35
- 78 Conwy 4.35
- 23 Croydon 4.35
- 30 Hart 4.34
+ 69 Sheffield 4.33
+ 25 Fermanagh 4.32
+ 68 Medway 4.26
- 25 Sutton 4.22
+ 18 Torfaen 4.22
- 17 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 4.19
+ 21 Rother 4.18
- 15 Newcastle-under-Lyme 4.18
- 86 South Northamptonshire 4.18
- 8 West Lancashire 4.15
- 7 Fenland 4.15
+ 45 South Hams 4.14
- 19 Newry and Mourne 4.11
- 6 Gateshead 4.08
+ 47 Oadby & Wigston 4.08
- 53 Ards 4.07
- 6 Great Yarmouth 4.07
+ 8 Epping Forest 4.02
+ 16 Epsom & Ewell 4.01
- 22 Manchester 3.99
+ 117 Blackpool 3.99
+ 85 Boston 3.98
+ 50 Swale 3.97
+ 7 King's Lynn & West Norfolk 3.97
- 38 North Somerset 3.94
- 6 Kingston upon Hull 3.94
+ 65 Denbighshire 3.91
+ 11 North Tyneside 3.91
- 13 Mid Devon 3.88
+ 13 Blaby 3.87
- 57 Lincolnshire 3.87
- 7 Carrickfergus 3.86
+ 35 North Ayrshire 3.83
- 14 Leicester 3.83
+ 43 Corby 3.82
+ 10 Sedgefield 3.82
+ 24 Caerphilly 3.82
- 89 Telford & Wrekin 3.81
- 7 Moray 3.81
+ 37 Blyth Valley 3.80
+ 7 Brentwood 3.76
same Basildon 3.75
+ 36 Cambridge 3.72
+ 39 Craigavon 3.71
- 24 Newport 3.70
+ 18 Blackburn with Darwen 3.70
+ 6 Uttlesford 3.70
- 3 Tewkesbury 3.69
- 60 Vale of White Horse 3.66
- 21 Cardiff 3.66
- 33 Oxfordshire 3.65
- 57 Salisbury 3.63
+ 22 Down 3.63
+ 39 Fylde 3.60
- 14 Glasgow 3.59
- 19 Magherafelt 3.55
+ 39 Durham 3.55
+ 32 Babergh 3.54
+ 27 Bolton 3.53
- 58 Forest of Dean 3.53
- 6 Chesterfield 3.50
+ 1 Tamworth 3.48
- 5 Powys 3.48
- 34 East Hampshire 3.45
- 31 Edinburgh 3.43
- 15 St Edmundsbury 3.42
- 127 City of London 3.41
+ 35 Argyll & Bute 3.41
- 17 Warrington 3.39
- 53 Havant 3.38
+ 39 Cornwall 3.37
- 81 Huntingdonshire 3.37
- 26 Dudley 3.35
- 1 Northamptonshire 3.32
+ 26 Newham 3.27
+ 5 Armagh 3.25
+ 11 Southwark 3.24
- 101 Worcester City Council 3.23
- 29 Maldon 3.22
+ 19 Nottingham 3.21
- 97 West Wiltshire 3.21
- 58 Tower Hamlets 3.21
+ 10 West Sussex 3.19
- 17 Rushmoor 3.19
- 19 Ashfield 3.19
+ 7 Stevenage 3.19
- 33 South Gloucestershire 3.17
- 28 Dumfries and Galloway 3.16
- 13 Warwickshire 3.15
- 5 Derry 3.13
- 151 Aberdeen 3.12
- 125 Winchester 3.09
- 60 Cambridgeshire 3.08
- 97 Ipswich 3.08
+ 2 Cookstown 3.06
+ 32 Torridge 3.05
+ 3 Cheltenham 3.00
+ 16 Torbay 2.96
+ 12 Greenwich 2.95
- 35 Halton 2.95
+ 2 Arun 2.94
+ 23 Basingstoke & Deane 2.94
- 4 Reading 2.94
+ 17 Norwich 2.93
+ 7 Bridgend 2.89
- 96 Kent 2.85
- 24 Plymouth 2.82
- 2 Ryedale 2.76
+ 14 Bury 2.74
+ 6 Cumbria 2.73
- 3 Sandwell 2.71
+ 7 Pembrokeshire 2.70
+ 4 Wyre Forest 2.65
- 153 West Lothian 2.63
same Orkney 2.61
+ 2 South Oxfordshire 2.59
- 8 Rushcliffe 2.57
- 60 Flintshire 2.55
- 107 Stoke-on-Trent 2.51
- 16 Islington 2.49
- 31 Watford 2.49
+ 23 Midlothian 2.49
- 36 Welwyn Hatfield 2.42
- 68 East Lothian 2.40
+ 11 Copeland 2.29
+ 23 Swansea 2.29
- 1 Gravesham 2.28
- 6 Daventry 2.27
- 9 Doncaster 2.22
+ 10 Middlesbrough 2.19
- 7 Merthyr Tydfil 2.17
- 27 Carmarthenshire 2.16
- 2 West Devon 2.15
+ 9 Hertsmere 2.09
- 53 East Riding of Yorkshire 2.07
- 4 Devon 2.05
- 4 Bromley 2.01
- 1 Newtownabbey 2.00
- 26 Antrim 1.97
+ 1 Selby 1.90
+ 1 Guildford 1.90
- 7 Craven 1.82
+ 4 Norfolk 1.65
- 10 Bournemouth 1.59
- 16 Cotswold 1.57
- 7 Mole Valley 1.55
- 20 North East Lincolnshire 1.32
- 2 Monmouthshire 1.27
+ 1 Birmingham 0.77
+ 1 Ballymoney 0.73
- 2 Barnsley 0.40