Clean sweep for Eastleigh’s Neighbourhoods and Green Spaces team in national awards
13th year of success
The Council team that keeps Eastleigh Borough’s streets, parks and open spaces attractive and clean has picked up two prestigious national awards.
The Borough Council’s Neighbourhoods and Green Spaces operation was again declared best performer in the Street Cleansing category, and won the best performer award in the Parks, Open Spaces and Horticultural services category in the APSE Awards, organised by the Association for Public Service Excellence.
It is the 13th year in a row that the Eastleigh team have scooped the award for street cleansing and the authority has been recognised in a number of other categories over the years. At the same ceremony in 2022, Eastleigh was named APSE’s Council of the Year.
APSE is the organisation dedicated to promoting quality in the delivery of frontline services to local communities. Its awards are based on independently verified data assessed against a range of criteria, including value-for-money, quality and the way an organisation develops its workforce.
In a competition that attracts submissions from more than 250 local authorities across the UK, Eastleigh’s achievement is unmatched: no other council service in the country has been voted the UK’s Best Street Cleansing Service more than twice.
Councillor Tonia Craig, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Social Policy who accepted the awards with Paul Naylor, Service Director, Neighbourhoods & Green Spaces, said: “It’s great news that Eastleigh is recognised as having the best team in the country looking after its streets, open spaces and village and town centres. The Neighbourhoods and Green Spaces team can be very proud of this achievement which reflects the huge level of dedication they bring to the job.”