February 2006/UK Local Government



Changes in rank are compared to January 2006/UK Local Government. Since then, 1 site entered the survey and 6 sites could not be included in the rankings (2 more since last time).

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Scores

Percentage Failures




Rank Name Exact overall
+ 4 Portsmouth 9.72
+ 10 Herefordshire 9.53
- 1 Thurrock 9.53
+ 5 Clackmannanshire 9.44
+ 11 Stroud 9.26
+ 122 Wansbeck 9.16
- 1 Barking & Dagenham 9.01
+ 24 Isle of Wight 8.97
- 7 Tynedale 8.94
- 4 Milton Keynes 8.88
+ 36 Kirklees 8.80
+ 3 Trafford 8.79
+ 14 Durham City 8.77
+ 39 Leeds 8.75
+ 303 Newark and Sherwood 8.72
+ 3 Hounslow 8.61
+ 34 Shepway 8.55
- 8 Hastings 8.54
+ 12 Kettering 8.51
same Redbridge 8.40
+ 116 South Lakeland 8.39
+ 14 Wear Valley 8.39
+ 132 Rutland 8.39
- 6 Richmond upon Thames 8.36
+ 4 Slough 8.24
+ 15 Mid Bedfordshire 8.24
+ 36 Essex 8.22
- 15 North Norfolk 8.18
+ 50 Eden 8.17
- 16 Havering 8.15
- 20 Oldham 8.06
- 8 Warwick 8.06
- 25 West Dorset 8.06
- 31 Lewes 7.99
+ 71 Wolverhampton 7.98
- 11 Broxbourne 7.96
- 16 Angus 7.91
- 14 Dover 7.88
+ 73 Gedling 7.85
- 1 Stockton-on-Tees 7.85
+ 16 Mansfield 7.79
+ 6 Merton 7.70
- 14 Wellingborough 7.70
- 1 High Peak 7.70
+ 5 East Staffordshire 7.66
+ 23 South Tyneside 7.65
+ 2 Stratford-on-Avon 7.57
+ 6 Crewe and Nantwich 7.54
- 23 Harborough 7.52
+ 68 St Helens 7.50
+ 10 Nuneaton & Bedworth 7.45
- 35 Adur 7.40
+ 268 Stirling 7.40
- 20 Bridgnorth 7.40
+ 30 Melton 7.31
- 14 Great Yarmouth 7.30
+ 39 Pendle 7.29
+ 44 Chester 7.26
+ 74 York 7.25
+ 17 Broxtowe 7.24
+ 201 Congleton 7.24
- 40 Liverpool 7.21
- 18 Stockport 7.19
+ 31 Chiltern 7.15
- 6 Gloucester 7.11
+ 83 Hinckley & Bosworth 7.10
+ 16 Coventry 7.09
+ 2 East Sussex 7.08
+ 89 Tamworth 7.03
- 5 Wakefield 7.02
+ 10 Staffordshire 6.99
- 28 West Oxfordshire 6.95
+ 74 South Shropshire 6.95
- 41 Waverley 6.94
- 71 Aylesbury Vale 6.94
+ 34 South Holland 6.92
+ 22 Rossendale 6.82
+ 9 Northampton 6.82
- 20 Gwynedd 6.78
- 12 North Devon 6.76
- 19 Bromsgrove 6.72
- 11 Scarborough 6.69
+ 88 Walsall 6.68
+ 30 Charnwood 6.65
- 45 Knowsley 6.64
+ 82 Huntingdonshire 6.61
+ 52 Mid Sussex 6.58
+ 31 North Cornwall 6.52
- 50 Taunton Deane 6.50
- 12 Ceredigion 6.50
same Redcar and Cleveland 6.45
+ 21 Rhondda Cynon Taff 6.44
+ 161 Eastleigh 6.43
+ 22 Rugby 6.41
+ 22 Wyre 6.40
+ 93 East Lindsey 6.39
- 25 Wandsworth 6.38
- 1 Richmondshire 6.34
- 12 Uttlesford 6.33
- 45 Gosport 6.32
- 35 Salisbury 6.28
- 14 North Shropshire 6.25
- 57 Tameside 6.25
- 74 Oswestry 6.20
- 1 Easington 6.20
+ 153 Southampton 6.19
- 13 Kensington & Chelsea 6.19
- 44 Braintree 6.17
+ 23 Test Valley 6.17
- 58 Isles of Scilly 6.14
- 44 Woking 6.13
- 75 Elmbridge 6.12
- 55 Gateshead 6.09
- 25 Salford 6.09
+ 15 South Hams 6.03
- 23 South Kesteven 6.03
- 44 Luton 6.02
- 42 Hillingdon 6.00
- 34 Wrexham 6.00
+ 9 Surrey Heath 5.98
+ 10 Aberdeenshire 5.97
- 22 Barrow-in-Furness 5.85
- 8 Hertfordshire 5.81
+ 28 East Renfrewshire 5.81
- 28 Caradon 5.80
- 44 Rushmoor 5.78
- 91 Allerdale 5.76
+ 77 Teesdale 5.73
- 3 Shrewsbury & Atcham 5.70
+ 68 Horsham 5.70
- 56 Westminster 5.66
- 42 Burnley 5.65
+ 10 Peterborough 5.62
+ 33 Lichfield 5.61
+ 116 South Norfolk 5.57
+ 86 Worthing 5.55
+ 129 Havant 5.53
+ 141 Lisburn 5.53
+ 27 Sedgemoor 5.52
+ 16 Macclesfield 5.50
- 49 Bracknell Forest 5.46
+ 45 Highland 5.46
+ 274 Ealing 5.45
- 5 Ribble Valley 5.44
- 19 Oxford 5.43
+ 16 Berwick-Upon-Tweed 5.43
+ 67 North Kesteven 5.36
- 25 Bradford 5.35
- 5 Canterbury 5.34
+ 1 Kent 5.34
- 47 Crawley 5.34
+ 4 Wyre Forest 5.32
- 10 Wycombe 5.32
- 8 Chester-le-Street 5.32
+ 6 Lincoln 5.31
+ 270 Malvern Hills 5.28
- 4 Neath Port Talbot 5.25
- 17 South Bedfordshire 5.24
- 38 Croydon 5.22
- 81 Tonbridge and Malling 5.21
+ 47 Oadby & Wigston 5.19
- 2 Derbyshire 5.19
- 44 North Lincolnshire 5.16
+ 58 Bedford 5.15
- 29 Southend-on-Sea 5.15
+ 21 Cannock Chase 5.14
- 112 Leicestershire 5.13
+ 57 South Gloucestershire 5.11
- 22 Maidstone 5.11
- 37 Stafford 5.09
- 69 Newcastle-under-Lyme 5.08
- 99 Nottinghamshire 5.04
+ 7 Carlisle 5.03
same Vale Royal 4.96
- 3 Dacorum 4.95
- 41 Broadland 4.92
- 53 Lambeth 4.92
- 38 Ards 4.91
+ 4 Lancaster 4.90
+ 25 Edinburgh 4.90
+ 3 Camden 4.90
- 1 East Hertfordshire 4.90
- 4 Breckland 4.89
+ 48 Cornwall 4.88
+ 6 Conwy 4.85
+ 33 Islington 4.83
- 53 Spelthorne 4.83
- 10 Sevenoaks 4.79
- 15 North Tyneside 4.79
- 26 Solihull 4.79
+ 44 Bexley 4.77
+ 112 Wiltshire 4.75
+ 79 New Forest 4.74
- 36 West Lancashire 4.74
- 36 West Somerset 4.72
+ 198 Worcestershire 4.70
+ 21 Kerrier 4.70
- 30 South Ayrshire 4.67
- 28 Shetland Islands 4.66
- 89 Calderdale 4.66
- 81 South Bucks 4.64
- 26 South Derbyshire 4.64
- 6 London Mayor 4.62
+ 32 City of London 4.62
- 99 Lincolnshire 4.61
+ 37 Bassetlaw 4.59
+ 45 Ryedale 4.58
+ 201 Wychavon 4.56
+ 42 Isle of Anglesey 4.54
+ 210 Newport 4.53
- 34 St Albans 4.51
+ 242 West Berkshire 4.50
+ 53 Gloucestershire 4.50
- 14 Gravesham 4.47
- 63 Blackburn with Darwen 4.45
- 13 Chesterfield 4.44
+ 160 West Lindsey 4.42
- 26 Erewash 4.41
+ 78 Ballymena 4.40
- 45 Harrow 4.36
- 72 East Ayrshire 4.36
+ 37 Omagh 4.34
- 60 Eastbourne 4.33
+ 14 West Wiltshire 4.32
+ 7 Barnet 4.32
- 58 North Dorset 4.30
+ 30 Lewisham 4.25
+ 72 Manchester 4.22
+ 64 Cherwell 4.22
- 19 Kingston upon Thames 4.20
- 14 Staffordshire Moorlands 4.19
- 1 East Northamptonshire 4.19
+ 7 North Down 4.18
+ 13 Glasgow 4.18
+ 19 Dartford 4.18
- 13 Forest of Dean 4.18
- 13 North West Leicestershire 4.15
+ 10 Wirral 4.13
- 1 Chichester 4.13
- 119 South Cambridgeshire 4.12
- 45 Restormel 4.11
- 28 Limavady 4.06
- 17 Weymouth & Portland 4.04
+ 55 Wokingham 4.01
- 17 South Staffordshire 4.00
- 1 Sedgefield 4.00
- 35 Bristol 3.99
- 58 Fife 3.99
- 150 Tendring 3.98
- 16 Chelmsford 3.97
+ 4 Denbighshire 3.96
- 50 Reigate and Banstead 3.95
- 48 Surrey 3.95
- 40 Merthyr Tydfil 3.94
- 13 Mendip 3.93
+ 62 Darlington 3.91
- 47 Blyth Valley 3.91
- 66 Rother 3.90
- 151 Preston 3.90
- 19 West Sussex 3.88
+ 64 Epsom & Ewell 3.87
+ 66 Bolsover 3.87
+ 15 Wealden 3.86
+ 19 Colchester 3.84
+ 17 Buckinghamshire 3.77
+ 47 North Yorkshire 3.76
+ 77 Leicester 3.76
- 61 Corby 3.75
- 2 Tewkesbury 3.74
+ 172 East Devon 3.73
+ 63 Cambridge 3.73
- 12 Ashford 3.73
- 4 Exeter 3.72
+ 12 Stoke-on-Trent 3.72
+ 6 North Hertfordshire 3.71
+ 30 Derbyshire Dales 3.71
- 2 Oxfordshire 3.71
- 31 Bath & North East Somerset 3.68
- 6 Larne 3.67
+ 9 Scottish Borders 3.64
+ 73 Boston 3.61
- 49 Windsor and Maidenhead 3.60
- 98 Telford & Wrekin 3.59
- 28 Sunderland 3.59
+ 21 Magherafelt 3.57
- 73 Wigan 3.57
- 2 West Dunbartonshire 3.54
- 16 Derby 3.54
- 45 Armagh 3.53
- 27 Reading 3.51
- 102 Castle Morpeth 3.51
same Hampshire 3.49
- 111 Dudley 3.49
+ 53 Flintshire 3.46
+ 13 Barnsley 3.46
+ 30 Brighton and Hove 3.46
+ 25 Falkirk 3.43
- 8 Plymouth 3.41
+ 3 Fenland 3.40
- 36 Runnymede 3.37
+ 49 Kennet 3.35
+ 9 Dundee 3.35
- 27 Torfaen 3.34
- 3 East Riding of Yorkshire 3.33
- 43 Moyle 3.33
+ 55 Greenwich 3.32
- 78 Vale of White Horse 3.32
+ 48 East Cambridgeshire 3.30
+ 53 Guildford 3.29
+ 36 Torridge 3.29
+ 25 Cumbria 3.29
- 25 Sheffield 3.28
- 29 Kingston upon Hull 3.28
+ 70 Carmarthenshire 3.26
- 121 Ipswich 3.25
+ 63 Cambridgeshire 3.25
+ 26 Halton 3.23
+ 35 Powys 3.22
new Harlow 3.21
- 6 Carrick 3.20
- 30 Derry 3.18
+ 26 Three Rivers 3.17
+ 7 Craigavon 3.17
same Hartlepool 3.16
- 48 Somerset 3.16
- 14 Rotherham 3.12
- 18 North East Derbyshire 3.11
+ 94 North Lanarkshire 3.10
+ 30 Daventry 3.10
+ 89 Waltham Forest 3.09
- 111 North East Lincolnshire 3.08
same Mid Devon 3.07
+ 60 Winchester 3.07
- 18 West Devon 3.06
+ 43 Maldon 3.02
+ 4 Shropshire 3.01
- 43 Strabane 3.01
+ 103 Craven 3.01
- 44 Ashfield 3.00
+ 34 Doncaster 2.99
- 10 Pembrokeshire 2.98
- 9 Nottingham 2.98
+ 59 Stevenage 2.95
- 25 North Somerset 2.94
+ 13 Cookstown 2.94
+ 51 Rushcliffe 2.93
+ 66 Hertsmere 2.92
+ 68 Welwyn Hatfield 2.89
+ 17 Newtownabbey 2.87
+ 39 Sandwell 2.86
- 16 Tandridge 2.86
+ 18 Devon 2.85
+ 37 Cheshire 2.82
+ 14 Bournemouth 2.81
+ 32 South Northamptonshire 2.80
- 5 King's Lynn & West Norfolk 2.79
- 148 Haringey 2.77
+ 33 Blaenau Gwent 2.76
+ 71 Bolton 2.76
- 82 Tower Hamlets 2.75
+ 4 Swansea 2.75
- 59 Rochford 2.75
+ 32 Southwark 2.74
- 19 Newry and Mourne 2.74
- 1 Cardiff 2.74
- 96 South Oxfordshire 2.73
- 46 Moray 2.72
- 52 Epping Forest 2.72
- 30 Suffolk 2.72
- 40 Penwith 2.71
- 73 Blaby 2.71
- 31 Northamptonshire 2.69
+ 39 Newham 2.69
+ 5 Poole 2.69
- 26 Thanet 2.66
- 101 Sutton 2.66
- 22 Copeland 2.65
+ 4 Fermanagh 2.64
+ 19 Down 2.59
- 20 Swindon 2.57
- 184 Waveney 2.54
- 114 Middlesbrough 2.54
- 16 Banbridge 2.53
- 11 Warwickshire 2.52
same Antrim 2.51
+ 18 Dumfries and Galloway 2.48
- 16 Perth & Kinross 2.48
- 281 Alnwick 2.46
- 3 Harrogate 2.41
- 21 Forest Heath 2.40
- 15 Basingstoke & Deane 2.36
- 54 Rochdale 2.34
+ 10 Bridgend 2.32
- 192 Aberdeen 2.32
+ 4 Derwentside 2.32
- 24 Babergh 2.31
+ 4 Enfield 2.31
+ 13 Lancashire 2.29
- 89 Suffolk Coastal 2.26
+ 18 Castlereagh 2.23
- 64 Bury 2.22
- 79 Tunbridge Wells 2.20
- 19 Cheltenham 2.20
+ 3 St Edmundsbury 2.18
+ 17 Bromley 2.13
+ 4 Hart 2.13
+ 20 Castle Point 2.11
- 16 Hammersmith & Fulham 2.04
+ 6 Monmouthshire 2.01
- 69 Chorley 2.00
+ 44 Sefton 1.99
- 54 Caerphilly 1.98
- 17 Brent 1.95
- 126 Watford 1.95
- 28 Norfolk 1.93
- 87 Belfast 1.93
+ 37 Ballymoney 1.93
- 12 Argyll & Bute 1.90
+ 9 Warrington 1.85
- 68 North Wiltshire 1.75
+ 17 Coleraine 1.74
+ 19 Vale of Glamorgan 1.70
- 48 Basildon 1.69
- 45 Bedfordshire 1.68
+ 11 Northumberland 1.64
+ 20 Ellesmere Port & Neston 1.63
+ 13 Durham 1.63
- 64 Blackpool 1.62
- 29 East Lothian 1.61
- 191 Teignbridge 1.56
+ 2 East Hampshire 1.56
+ 28 Hackney 1.55
+ 2 Carrickfergus 1.54
+ 23 Worcester 1.52
- 14 Fylde 1.47
- 12 Hyndburn 1.46
- 13 Norwich 1.44
- 5 Newcastle upon Tyne 1.38
- 34 Cotswold 1.36
- 9 Swale 1.35
- 146 Arun 1.30
- 6 South Ribble 1.28
+ 1 South Somerset 1.27
+ 4 Birmingham 1.25
+ 5 Torbay 1.24
+ 5 Inverclyde 1.21
- 19 Mid Suffolk 1.21
- 34 West Lothian 1.20
- 15 Brentwood 1.20
- 1 Orkney 1.19
- 6 Midlothian 1.14
- 9 North Ayrshire 0.99
+ 3 South Lanarkshire 0.88
- 259 Amber Valley 0.87
- 2 Mole Valley 0.83
+ 3 Redditch 0.78
- 10 East Dunbartonshire 0.65
same Selby 0.35
+ 2 Dungannon 0.15