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Local Environmental Quality Survey of England (LEQSE)
Since 2001 the Government has commissioned ENCAMs to undertake an annual Local Environmental Quality Survey of England (LEQSE), to provide Defra with relevant and reliable information on the state of the local environment. This information is used by Government to develop policies, direct support to councils and allocate priorities on the basis of actual evidence.
To help further improvements in April 2006 Encams was asked to undertake not only the national LEQSE but to increase the size of the survey so that every English council would have its own individual report between 2007 – 2008.
The report provides a detailed picture of how each local council is performing on a range of local environmental quality issues, including: litter, detritus, graffiti, fly-posting, condition of highways and street furniture right down to the condition and management of litter bin stock over different land uses eg. Primary retail, public open spaces, housing, roads, industrial
It provides detailed management information about which problems are greatest, where they are the worst, who or what is causing them and gives a detailed picture of how standards compare with the country wide benchmarks for each environmental element and standard land use.
All four districts were inspected and standards in Wiltshire can be compared with the National Benchmarks in terms of percentage of headline environmental elements that in overall terms were assessed as Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory and Poor.
|
Overall Quality Standard |
Wiltshire |
National Average |
|
Good |
36% |
28% |
|
Satisfactory |
29% |
19% |
|
Unsatisfactory |
31% |
48% |
|
Poor |
4% |
5% |
