Parks, Horticulture and Grounds Maintenance
Enhancing and protecting green infrastructure, championing our public parks provision
Advisory Groups & Seminars
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The Parks, Horticulture and Grounds Maintenance Advisory group provides an opportunity to share and hear case studies of successful innovations in parks services, delivering improvements in service provision for residents, efficiencies through smarter working practises and additional income streams. A typical agenda may include policy updates from sector partners, details of recent Advocacy work and facilitate professional development through learning and networking with peer parks professionals. All meetings are free to attend and there is no upper limit on how many staff and elected members may attend from each APSE member authority. The group also has the opportunity to gather within the context of Future Focus, the Southern Region's seminar exploring innovative initiatives in service delivery to meet future challenges and at our regional Parks and Open Spaces seminar. To register your details to receive details of upcoming meetings, please complete our contact form, stating your service interest areas.
Briefings & Research
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Briefing: 18-46
Pocketparksplus Fund 2018
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Briefing: 18-31
State of the Market 2018 - Allotments
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Briefing: 18-11
State of the Market 2018: Local Authority Parks and Green Spaces Services
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Briefing: 18-04
Parks and Open Spaces Trend Analysis 2016-17
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Network Queries
Through APSE’s Network Query service staff and councillors from member authorities can circulate a query across the Association’s 250+ member authorities to ascertain feedback on matters of service delivery. Previous queries have sought feedback on horticultural practises and weed control methods, events’ strategies and tree management policies. To disseminate a query, please fill out our online request form here. To request a copy of the feedback from a previous query, please click here.
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Performance Networks
Through Performance Networks, APSE has been supporting member authorities to benchmark outcomes in Parks, open spaces and horticultural services since 2000. Developed organically, under the direction of service managers, the benchmarking group has grown to a UK wide network and conduit of performance information exploring outcomes in cost, quality and productivity.
Included within the service is the Land Audit Management System (LAMS) – Grounds Maintenance facilitating bi-monthly benchmarking of the quality of grounds maintenance scoring transacts of land on the quality of land management as the public would see it.
Alongside this, Performance Networks and LAMS also provides modules for Cemeteries and Crematorium Services and Street Cleansing
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Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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