New research from two leading local government think tanks has found that, whilst 93% of local councils are reporting cuts to street scene & public realm budgets, there is still an urgent need for councils to adopt different approaches to cope with the budget cuts.
In ‘Park Life, Street Life: Managing demand in the public realm’ researchers from APSE and NLGN argue that councils could save money by ‘reducing demand on services like litter-picking, by using behaviour change tools and techniques’.
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