July 2008/UK Local Government



Changes in rank are compared to June 2008/UK Local Government. Since then, 3 sites entered the survey and 4 sites could not be included in the rankings (2 fewer since last time).

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Scores

Percentage Failures




Rank Name Exact overall
+ 48 Stockton-on-Tees 10.00
+ 5 North Down 9.77
+ 7 Liverpool 9.77
- 1 South Bedfordshire 9.72
- 4 Mid Bedfordshire 9.59
+ 7 Thurrock 9.43
+ 49 Slough 9.40
- 3 Tynedale 9.39
+ 2 Lewes 9.23
- 6 Herefordshire 9.07
new Barking & Dagenham 8.93
+ 27 Milton Keynes 8.83
+ 45 Runnymede 8.75
- 4 Elmbridge 8.73
- 13 South Norfolk 8.70
- 4 Shepway 8.69
+ 51 East Renfrewshire 8.59
+ 14 Surrey Heath 8.51
+ 48 Bracknell Forest 8.47
+ 32 South Bucks 8.45
+ 2 Derbyshire 8.36
- 8 Portsmouth 8.32
+ 82 Vale of Glamorgan 8.31
- 3 Dover 8.28
+ 22 Richmond upon Thames 8.27
same Redbridge 8.26
+ 46 Adur 8.20
- 13 Knowsley 8.17
+ 17 North East Derbyshire 8.12
+ 5 South Tyneside 8.10
+ 144 Merton 8.09
+ 21 Hammersmith & Fulham 8.06
- 15 New Forest 8.05
+ 3 North Warwickshire 7.98
+ 27 Hambleton 7.94
+ 5 Sunderland 7.81
+ 5 East Northamptonshire 7.80
- 14 Trafford 7.79
- 22 Restormel 7.78
+ 40 High Peak 7.74
+ 38 Kirklees 7.69
+ 2 Rhondda Cynon Taff 7.69
- 10 Argyll & Bute 7.68
- 36 Hyndburn 7.67
+ 193 Aberdeenshire 7.66
+ 26 Shetland Islands 7.66
- 22 Staffordshire 7.64
+ 286 Wakefield 7.63
- 11 Belfast 7.62
- 10 Solihull 7.62
+ 10 Hinckley & Bosworth 7.59
+ 48 Isles of Scilly 7.59
- 23 Easington 7.58
+ 31 Angus 7.56
- 33 Caradon 7.52
+ 164 Scottish Borders 7.45
- 23 Shrewsbury & Atcham 7.45
- 10 Salford 7.45
+ 13 Taunton Deane 7.42
+ 16 Gedling 7.40
+ 4 Wrexham 7.39
- 34 Hillingdon 7.32
- 47 Stafford 7.31
+ 207 Wyre 7.30
+ 24 Warwick 7.30
+ 33 Hertfordshire 7.29
- 17 North Lincolnshire 7.24
+ 60 Canterbury 7.24
- 49 St Helens 7.24
+ 62 Broxtowe 7.22
- 65 Thanet 7.21
+ 110 Worcester City Council 7.20
+ 14 Wolverhampton 7.19
same Southampton 7.19
- 30 Highland 7.15
+ 96 Vale of White Horse 7.15
+ 57 Barrow-in-Furness 7.15
+ 63 Mid Sussex 7.12
+ 13 Broadland 7.09
+ 8 Horsham 7.07
+ 77 Isle of Wight 7.07
- 13 South Kesteven 7.07
+ 35 North Shropshire 7.07
+ 11 Down 7.06
- 56 Surrey 7.06
- 22 Bristol 7.06
- 68 Stroud 7.03
+ 25 Rugby 6.98
- 44 South Lakeland 6.98
+ 207 Lincoln 6.98
- 1 South Shropshire 6.96
+ 39 Hounslow 6.95
- 57 Kensington & Chelsea 6.94
+ 3 Tonbridge and Malling 6.93
- 17 Melton 6.90
+ 194 Nottinghamshire 6.88
- 14 Oswestry 6.88
- 17 Allerdale 6.84
- 3 Strabane 6.82
- 30 Cherwell 6.82
+ 38 Redcar and Cleveland 6.81
+ 35 South Northamptonshire 6.81
- 19 Eastleigh 6.80
+ 57 Newark and Sherwood 6.80
- 3 South Ribble 6.79
+ 2 Walsall 6.79
- 41 Tandridge 6.78
- 34 East Dunbartonshire 6.77
+ 15 Fife 6.75
+ 30 Chester-le-Street 6.72
- 52 Woking 6.71
- 22 Rutland 6.69
+ 29 Worthing 6.68
+ 22 Tendring 6.66
+ 36 South Cambridgeshire 6.66
+ 28 Congleton 6.66
- 61 Harlow 6.61
+ 25 Peterborough 6.53
+ 81 East Hertfordshire 6.52
- 27 Durham City 6.52
- 12 Chester 6.50
- 19 Kettering 6.46
+ 56 Forest Heath 6.44
+ 25 Dundee 6.42
+ 221 Gosport 6.40
same Cookstown 6.40
- 45 Aberdeen 6.40
- 30 Charnwood 6.39
- 8 Gwynedd 6.37
- 44 Renfrewshire 6.36
+ 161 Tunbridge Wells 6.33
+ 98 Aylesbury Vale 6.33
- 23 East Ayrshire 6.32
+ 53 East Cambridgeshire 6.32
- 13 Windsor and Maidenhead 6.29
- 17 Swindon 6.29
+ 11 Wear Valley 6.29
- 13 Northumberland 6.24
- 16 Erewash 6.23
+ 30 St Albans 6.22
- 86 North Cornwall 6.19
+ 17 Exeter 6.19
+ 17 Omagh 6.16
- 14 Wellingborough 6.12
+ 33 Wirral 6.10
+ 45 Bedfordshire 6.07
+ 30 Carrick 6.07
- 70 Teignbridge 6.07
+ 5 Manchester 6.05
+ 72 Stirling 6.02
+ 60 North West Leicestershire 6.02
+ 4 Blaenau Gwent 6.01
- 4 Bradford 6.00
- 47 North Norfolk 5.99
+ 2 Banbridge 5.97
- 102 Oldham 5.93
- 56 South Staffordshire 5.93
+ 152 Perth & Kinross 5.93
+ 42 Mendip 5.90
- 8 Dungannon 5.89
- 56 East Staffordshire 5.88
+ 28 South Somerset 5.87
- 69 Stockport 5.87
- 137 Hastings 5.87
- 49 Castle Point 5.85
+ 18 Calderdale 5.85
+ 118 Scarborough 5.84
+ 49 Wealden 5.82
+ 59 Eastbourne 5.81
- 8 Camden 5.80
- 111 Broxbourne 5.78
+ 8 Bridgnorth 5.78
- 70 Wandsworth 5.77
+ 153 Redditch 5.76
- 42 North Devon 5.76
+ 100 West Oxfordshire 5.72
- 11 Chichester 5.71
+ 129 Bromsgrove 5.70
+ 45 York 5.69
- 60 South Ayrshire 5.66
- 18 Buckinghamshire 5.63
- 9 Penwith 5.62
- 72 Dartford 5.62
- 13 Oadby & Wigston 5.61
- 73 Tameside 5.60
+ 56 Waltham Forest 5.58
+ 48 Leicestershire 5.57
same Gloucester 5.54
+ 16 Pendle 5.53
+ 7 Havering 5.53
- 74 Oxford 5.52
+ 72 West Dunbartonshire 5.51
- 162 Eden 5.50
- 29 East Devon 5.49
+ 28 Harborough 5.48
+ 12 Chiltern 5.48
+ 9 Bath & North East Somerset 5.48
- 9 Macclesfield 5.44
- 148 Stratford-on-Avon 5.44
- 54 Norwich 5.43
+ 142 Malvern Hills 5.43
- 35 Luton 5.41
+ 9 Inverclyde 5.41
+ 14 Limavady 5.41
+ 1 West Lothian 5.41
- 12 Bedford 5.36
- 23 Vale Royal 5.35
- 145 West Dorset 5.34
- 54 Crewe and Nantwich 5.33
- 96 Northampton 5.33
+ 33 Derby 5.33
+ 19 West Lancashire 5.31
- 28 South Holland 5.31
- 12 Lambeth 5.30
+ 15 Harrow 5.30
- 45 Cannock Chase 5.30
+ 35 East Riding of Yorkshire 5.28
- 42 Weymouth & Portland 5.26
- 90 Gloucestershire 5.26
- 35 Haringey 5.26
- 57 Poole 5.24
+ 74 Edinburgh 5.22
- 108 Cheshire 5.21
+ 16 Bexley 5.18
- 11 Derbyshire Dales 5.16
+ 10 Crawley 5.16
- 31 Ellesmere Port & Neston 5.16
- 9 Larne 5.13
+ 29 Suffolk 5.13
- 20 Sedgemoor 5.12
+ 82 Purbeck 5.11
- 80 Ribble Valley 5.10
same Amber Valley 5.10
- 96 Kerrier 5.08
- 41 Lichfield 5.07
+ 201 Cumbria 5.07
- 21 Chelmsford 5.05
- 70 Essex 5.04
- 94 Spelthorne 5.03
- 59 Three Rivers 5.03
- 38 North East Lincolnshire 5.02
+ 64 Lancaster 5.02
+ 18 Somerset 5.02
+ 31 Derwentside 5.01
+ 3 Wigan 4.99
+ 99 Waverley 4.98
- 32 Berwick-Upon-Tweed 4.97
- 121 States of Jersey 4.97
- 45 Rochford 4.96
+ 24 Isle of Anglesey 4.96
+ 41 Ealing 4.96
+ 48 Newtownabbey 4.96
- 41 Rossendale 4.94
+ 7 North Hertfordshire 4.92
- 33 Sefton 4.92
+ 59 Westminster 4.89
- 66 Moyle 4.89
- 59 Hartlepool 4.88
+ 21 Dacorum 4.87
+ 57 North Kesteven 4.85
- 10 Coleraine 4.82
+ 36 North Somerset 4.82
- 89 Breckland 4.81
- 18 Mid Suffolk 4.81
- 3 Wokingham 4.80
+ 7 Reigate and Banstead 4.76
- 30 Braintree 4.72
+ 13 Lewisham 4.71
- 37 Teesdale 4.71
+ 67 Bassetlaw 4.70
- 62 Staffordshire Moorlands 4.69
- 30 Uttlesford 4.69
- 138 West Berkshire 4.68
+ 10 Croydon 4.67
- 6 Great Yarmouth 4.66
- 22 Leicester 4.64
- 43 Blackpool 4.64
- 21 Brentwood 4.63
- 20 London Mayor 4.60
+ 22 Antrim 4.60
- 4 Ballymoney 4.57
+ 164 Richmondshire 4.56
- 18 Cambridge 4.56
+ 44 Kingston upon Thames 4.55
- 18 Lancashire 4.53
+ 26 West Lindsey 4.53
- 31 Winchester 4.51
+ 21 Burnley 4.50
+ 92 King's Lynn & West Norfolk 4.47
- 24 East Sussex 4.46
+ 89 Leeds 4.46
- 6 Bolsover 4.42
+ 148 Waveney 4.42
- 26 Hackney 4.41
+ 72 Conwy 4.41
- 57 Wycombe 4.40
- 8 Alnwick 4.40
- 54 South Derbyshire 4.40
- 36 Ceredigion 4.39
- 75 North Dorset 4.37
- 52 Shropshire 4.37
+ 90 Tamworth 4.37
+ 74 Rushmoor 4.36
- 156 Test Valley 4.34
+ 19 Hampshire 4.34
- 53 Lisburn 4.33
- 24 Kennet 4.30
+ 13 Preston 4.27
new Falkirk 4.25
+ 4 Suffolk Coastal 4.24
+ 21 Kingston upon Hull 4.24
+ 28 Wiltshire 4.24
- 58 North Yorkshire 4.19
+ 71 Darlington 4.17
+ 52 Fenland 4.15
+ 37 Sevenoaks 4.13
- 12 Armagh 4.13
+ 32 Torfaen 4.13
- 20 Cardiff 4.13
+ 39 Denbighshire 4.12
- 18 Newry and Mourne 4.11
- 2 Wansbeck 4.10
+ 49 Arun 4.02
+ 25 Worcestershire 4.02
- 53 Nuneaton & Bedworth 3.99
- 47 Salisbury 3.99
+ 11 Brighton and Hove 3.98
- 21 Wychavon 3.98
- 131 West Somerset 3.94
+ 17 Newport 3.93
- 8 Kent 3.93
+ 4 Durham 3.92
- 8 Ballymena 3.92
- 23 Telford & Wrekin 3.92
+ 95 City of London 3.91
- 6 Craven 3.86
+ 102 Southend-on-Sea 3.83
+ 1 Moray 3.81
- 45 Sutton 3.80
- 9 Blackburn with Darwen 3.79
- 59 Tewkesbury 3.78
+ 66 Basingstoke & Deane 3.75
+ 15 Boston 3.75
+ 33 Swale 3.72
+ 12 Basildon 3.71
+ 49 East Lindsey 3.71
- 6 West Sussex 3.68
+ 14 Wyre Forest 3.68
+ 53 Rotherham 3.66
- 32 Blaby 3.64
+ 89 Brent 3.63
+ 4 Stoke-on-Trent 3.62
- 49 Craigavon 3.61
- 75 Ards 3.61
+ 48 Sedgefield 3.59
- 129 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 3.58
- 14 Northamptonshire 3.55
- 29 Warrington 3.55
- 166 Forest of Dean 3.53
- 69 Hart 3.53
+ 9 Stevenage 3.52
+ 53 Glasgow 3.52
- 28 Colchester 3.52
+ 27 Dumfries and Galloway 3.50
- 43 Halton 3.48
+ 9 North Ayrshire 3.47
- 79 Enfield 3.47
- 20 Carrickfergus 3.46
+ 28 Plymouth 3.46
+ 41 Fylde 3.45
- 145 Newcastle upon Tyne 3.45
+ 25 Watford 3.41
- 4 West Devon 3.39
- 79 Mid Devon 3.39
- 12 Flintshire 3.38
+ 22 Greenwich 3.38
- 90 Barnet 3.38
+ 6 Chesterfield 3.36
+ 22 Doncaster 3.35
- 17 Warwickshire 3.35
- 80 Coventry 3.34
+ 4 Cambridgeshire 3.34
new Castle Morpeth 3.33
- 19 Caerphilly 3.31
- 2 West Wiltshire 3.30
+ 1 South Oxfordshire 3.30
- 71 Ipswich 3.29
- 17 Derry 3.29
- 39 Tower Hamlets 3.28
- 27 Powys 3.25
+ 37 Maldon 3.23
- 50 North Wiltshire 3.23
- 74 Oxfordshire 3.21
- 15 Havant 3.21
+ 9 Blyth Valley 3.21
+ 58 Newcastle-under-Lyme 3.16
- 36 Magherafelt 3.16
- 6 Bridgend 3.16
+ 43 Corby 3.16
+ 29 Dudley 3.13
+ 8 Ashfield 3.11
- 8 Cheltenham 3.10
+ 11 Middlesbrough 3.09
- 31 Sheffield 3.07
+ 39 Bury 3.05
- 6 Rother 3.05
+ 46 East Lothian 3.03
- 158 Mansfield 3.01
- 4 Gateshead 2.98
- 36 Islington 2.94
- 85 Babergh 2.94
- 12 Cornwall 2.94
+ 21 Reading 2.92
+ 5 Epping Forest 2.90
+ 43 Medway 2.87
- 27 Welwyn Hatfield 2.86
+ 9 Gravesham 2.82
- 85 South Hams 2.80
- 9 Bournemouth 2.78
+ 7 Daventry 2.74
- 14 Copeland 2.74
- 175 Neath Port Talbot 2.71
- 5 Fermanagh 2.71
- 8 Pembrokeshire 2.70
- 73 North Lanarkshire 2.69
+ 10 Lincolnshire 2.66
+ 6 Harrogate 2.58
- 15 Epsom & Ewell 2.58
- 3 Bolton 2.58
- 76 Huntingdonshire 2.57
+ 3 Rushcliffe 2.57
- 1 South Gloucestershire 2.55
- 78 Chorley 2.55
+ 16 Merthyr Tydfil 2.52
- 18 Orkney 2.51
- 16 Ryedale 2.50
- 55 Nottingham 2.41
- 31 Castlereagh 2.39
- 17 Newham 2.37
+ 11 Barnsley 2.37
- 198 Ashford 2.31
- 49 Carlisle 2.30
- 11 Sandwell 2.30
+ 15 Southwark 2.29
- 24 Norfolk 2.24
- 58 Maidstone 2.24
- 71 North Tyneside 2.22
- 178 Devon 2.22
- 11 East Hampshire 2.19
- 7 Selby 2.14
- 3 Hertsmere 2.09
- 7 St Edmundsbury 2.02
- 6 Bromley 2.01
- 86 Torridge 2.01
- 32 Swansea 1.99
- 4 Monmouthshire 1.94
- 2 Cotswold 1.86
- 34 Birmingham 1.52
- 2 Guildford 1.30
same Mole Valley 1.29
- 12 Carmarthenshire 1.21
- 6 Midlothian 1.12