Case studies

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Hampshire County Council has adopted a new targeted approach to improving recycling behaviours. Aiming to wake people up from their recycling habits, a combination of digital and offline tactics were delivered across three pilots, including a pledge tool, bin wraps and volunteer outreach. Digital click-through rates reached six per cent, and the majority surveyed reported changing their recycling behaviours as a result of what they had seen. Additionally, contamination fell by four per cent in one pilot.

Buckinghamshire County Council’s Business Intelligence, Insight and Improvement team have worked collaboratively with the council’s SEND service to develop a complex predictive model to forecast demand and cost

From August 2019 – May 2021, the London Borough of Hounslow and Ogilvy Consulting’s Behavioural Science Practice collaborated on a rigorous behavioural insights trial to effectively test ways to increase recycling in high-rise properties.

The private rented sector has grown considerably over the last two decades and following a stock modelling survey undertaken by the Building Research Establishment, accounts for approximately 29 per cent of the stock (over 58,000 properties).

The current housing and homelessness strategy (2019-2024) has as one its four core themes ‘improving the use of existing homes’.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is committed to drive up standards in the private rented sector and make a positive difference to the lives of tenants and landlords.

Hull has a large private rented sector with concentrations of up to 80 per cent of the stock on some streets being in that tenure.

The private rented sector is the major tenure in the borough with over 40 per cent of households (53,000 households). It has more than doubled since 2003.

Stoke-on-Trent council is highly ambitious and says in its housing strategy that it sees itself as a facilitator of change.