WARRINGTON'S unitary authority has had mixed results in the Audit Commission's latest report.

The 'environmental services performance indicators' look at everything from waste to streetlighting and councils are compared with others of the same type, in Warrington's case, other unitary authorities, for the 1999/2000 period.

Warrington's worst performance was in the number of public conveniences per 100,000 residents, scoring just one. The town was bottom of the league table.

The town also performed way below average on the recycling of household waste, with just five per cent of rubbish being re-used.

Considering Warrington's top class reputation for disabled services, the town was also below the national average for pedestrian crossings with facilities for people with disabilities. The statistics show that just 44 per cent of crossings offer this facility. Warrington was also towards the bottom of the table for the amount of inspections on high risk food premises that were carried out, despite completing inspections on 74.7 per cent of premises. And the council was also low on the number of public footpaths which are easily accessible to the public. The town scored 61 per cent while the national average was 77.1 per cent.

With regards to street lighting, the town has 1.1 per cent of lights not working as planned.

On a positive note, the authority performed well in household waste collections, missing just 34 collections per 100,000 during the five month period. Highway cleanliness beat the national average of 91.3 per cent of highways that are of a high or acceptable level of cleanliness.

And the percentage of householder planning applications decided within eight weeks was also good with 88 per cent hitting the target. Warrington was sixth in the league table.

Council chief executive Steven Broomhead, said: "We are pleased to see in many areas addressed by these performance indicators, such as bin collections, processing planning applications and street cleansing, the council is consistently performing well. However, we do recognise some areas were in need of improvement. We have already addressed many of these and details are explained in our Community Plan 2001/2002, which will be published next week."