Progress: Enhancing Our Quality Of Place

The amount of waste going to landfill in Hampshire continued to fall and is now below 15%. Hampshire is the strongest performing County Council in terms of diverting waste from landfill, with the next highest performing authority in 2006/07 Staffordshire with 43.6% waste landfilled. Hampshire landfilled 7.9% less household waste tonnage in 2007/08 compared with  2006/07.

The A3 Bus Priority (or ZIP) corridor was completed in early 2008 at a total cost of £33.5m. The works have provided significant improvements for bus passengers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Over 1700 school BusIT packs have been issued and over a thousand journeys a week are regularly made with BusIT.

Audit of over 200 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation owned by the County Council has resulted in a programme to review and assist the management of these sites.

Robust attention to protecting and enhancing biodiversity throughout the county has been given within planning, property management, transportation and land management functions.