Contained within the Service Improvement Plan was a recommendation to seek a partner to deliver highway, street lighting and verge maintenance.

The partnership agenda is a crucial element in Liverpool's drive to regenerate itself into a premier European City. Partnerships will bring to the city new efficiencies, with the public sector working along side private sector organisations.

In April 2002 Liverpool City Council decided to award a partnership arrangement to Enterprise plc. Enterprise-Liverpool is now the company who is responsible for all street scene works within the City.

Citizens want streets that are free from disruption, are safe and accessible and create a lively and attractive environment. The partnership delivers these aspirations through a totally customer focused approach which views the City's streets as much more than simply routes to destinations but as places in their own right.

Enterprise-Liverpool is managed by a Board of Directors, whose structure is made up of representatives from both Enterprise PLC and Liverpool City Council. The partnership arrangement means that the City Council still has its say at service level, while private sector efficiencies are returned to the city.

At its inauguration the partnership Enterprise-Liverpool was awarded a 10 year contract to deliver a number of key services these included:

	Highway Maintenance
	Street Lighting Maintenance
	Highway Verge Maintenance
	Highway Planned Maintenance
	Winter Maintenance

The partnership was set up to increase the efficiencies of the Council within its street scene, this means all activities carried out by the business are stringently checked and the value they are adding to the city constantly under scrutiny.

Each month Enterprise-Liverpool publishes performance figures these can be found by clicking here.

The partnership is developing into a major element of the Council's capacity to deliver quantitative and qualitative improvements to the way highway and street works are executed. It generates, through the innovative use of technology, the necessary step-change to meet Government targets for e-government. It vastly improves customer contact through the interface with Liverpool Direct Ltd, the Councils exciting new call centre and itself an innovative Joint Venture partnership.