Performance Report 2010/11

Enhancing our quality of place

This priority recognises that the quality of our natural and built environment is very important to Hampshire residents.

In 2010/11

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    62 miles of road were resurfaced and 30,000 potholes filled in over 200 locations in just six months in the Operation Restore scheme.  It recently won the Major Project Award in the ICE South East England Engineering Awards.

     

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    Work to replace and maintain 250,000 streetlights across Hampshire began, under a 25 year private finance initiative.

     

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    One of the village shops supported by our Village Community Grant scheme won Hampshire County Magazine's Village Shop of the Year Award 2011.  Centre Stores in Eversley was voted the winner, in part due to the way in which the new owners have embraced the selling of local produce in the shop.  

     

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    We launched a new online service for reporting road problems.

     

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    Our countryside sites were visited 412,000 times – a 30% increase from the previous year.

     

  • Man shovelling snow

    We used 14,000 tonnes of salt keeping priority roads open during the worst of the winter weather.

     

  • Woman sorting waste at household recycling centre

    Less than 10% of household waste was sent to landfill, making us the best performing County Council in England for the fifth year running.  

     

How did we perform against targets?

  • We achieved 60% of our targets for this priority.
  • 40% of measures showed improvement from 2009/10.

You can find out more about our performance against targets in the Cabinet report Open for Business – A Review of Key Strategies and Progress; Building on Success and Improvement.