A survey on the matter is open until February 28 next year
Belfast residents are being asked their opinions on how to tackle dog poo issues in the city.
Belfast City Council is asking people in the city to “take the lead” on the problem at city streets and parks, and has a survey it is hoping will be busy well into the next year on its Yoursay website.
The survey is open until February 28 next year, and is available here. People are also being asked to give new ideas on the council’s “ideas tab”, which can be found here.
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The council says: “The council faces increasing demands on its resources to address this ongoing issue. We need to find ways to change the negative behaviours relating to dog fouling and highlight the health risks associated with dog fouling for the public and for our staff.
“We will continue to tackle dog fouling through cleansing, enforcement, communication and education messaging. However, as a society we have a collective responsibility to deal with this issue, and we would like your input to help us build a collaborative strategic approach to tackling dog fouling.
“We want to get feedback from dog owners, the public, businesses, MLA’s, schools, community groups and voluntary organisations alongside council services, to help develop and inform an approach to keeping our streets and parks free of dog fouling.”
Since January 2025 council officers have been conducting a dog fouling reduction pilot within the north of the city. As part of the wider action plan for the full city, council officers extracted information from the council customer hub on the streets across the whole of the city with the highest number of dog fouling complaints during the period April 2021 to July 2025.
Using this information together with other data, in October council officers listed streets in each quarter of the city that would be the focus for the next phase of targeted interventions, including new litter bins.
These are Whitewell Road, Cavehill Road and Oldpark Road in the north, and Orby Drive, Belmont Road, Clarawood Park and Cregagh Road in the east.
In the south, they include Ravenhill Road, Farnham Street and the Cranmore area, and in the west, they include Clonard Street, Lenadoon Avenue, Rockville Street and Springfield Road. Elected members agreed to these streets being targeted.
The extra interventions in these areas will involve increased patrols by dog wardens as well as a review of litter bin provision, to include consideration of a mix of post mounted and standard litter bins, with dog fouling stickers affixed to the sides.
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