Blackburn with Darwen council recorded 25.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.3 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,828, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 156 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £22,000 to clear. It issued 167 fixed penalty notices, 38 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 55 prosecutions.
Darwen Tower can be seen for miles, and some sod still dumps a mattress at the bottom of it like nobody will notice.