London Councils co-funded research with Keep Britain Tidy in 2011 to explore London residents’ priorities for council spending. It investigates where local environmental quality and related anti-social behaviour issues feature amongst broader public priorities and asks why local environment quality is consistently a priority.
The focus of the research project was about understanding how changing priorities impact on the ways residents want councils to tackle issues. It explores whether the public are more or less likely to tolerate the use of fixed penalty notices (fines), and whether they are seen as an acceptable (and successful) route to behaviour change.
The report considers what residents are willing to contribute towards tackling the issues personally (for example, time) and what other approaches and techniques are most likely to change poor environmental behaviours and encourage people to ‘do the right thing’.
A full report and executive summary are available.