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This year the TIDY conference will focus on practical strategies for implementing the Clean Neighbourhoods & Environment legislation. we will be bringing speakers from councils and other bodies in England to give advice and guidance on the best practice they have developed through 6 years of implementing similar legislation. We will consider the elements of the legislation in turn during the day, as well as looking at how to most effectively communicate the message of behavioural change. The day will end with an open question and answer session with the speakers.

Topics to be covered on the day will include:

· How councils can better engage with citizens to influence behaviour such as littering, and reduce the costs incurred as a result

· Using a partnership approach to tackle litter hotspots in social housing areas

· The use of new powers to combat fly-tipping by preventing the illegal collection and disposal of commercial waste.

· How people's perceptions of a place are formed, and how they can be influenced to improve their local environmental quality

· Best practice in the introduction and use of dog control areas

· Novel methods for dealing with flyposting

· A general overview of the powers available under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act, and how they can be used to greatest effect.

In a change from the format of the previous years, we will be running only two workshops, and delegates will be able to attend both.

In previous years the Summit has been attended by heads of technical and environmental services in local authorities, councillors, key members of the NI Tourist Board, the PSNI, NILGA, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and others, and last year was addressed by the Head of the NIEA, John McMillen on behalf of the then Environment Minister.

The conference will also be addressed by David Meade; TV presenter, university lecturer and "mentalist" and Arthur Acheson, chair of the Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment for Northern Ireland.

Brian Walker, member of the Council of the Law Society of Northern Ireland will be attending in order to give his views on the topics of discussion and methods of implimenting the legislation.

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