For the second year running Denbighshire’s Street Lighting team has won two prestigious awards for its work.
The team has won best performing team and best service team in the Street Lighting category in the finals of the Performance Networks Awards 2009 and Annual Service Awards 2009, which are run by the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE).
Performance Networks is a benchmarking service operated by APSE and has over 200 local authorities from across the UK as members.
Performance Networks is the largest voluntary performance measurement service for local government and looks at data for 15 front-line services. The Street Lighting category had over 51 submissions from participating authorities throughout the UK and Denbighshire were recognised as the best performing Street Lighting team in the country.
The performance indicators that Performance Networks looks at cost, productivity, customer satisfaction, quality and human resource management giving a comprehensive view of performance.
Councillor Eryl Williams, Cabinet Lead Member for Environment, said: “The team is the only one in UK to have won these four awards in two consecutive years, which is a brilliant acheivement.
“I am extremely proud of what they have achieved and I congratulate them all for their continued hard work in ensuring they continue to provide an award winning service to the people of Denbighshire.”
