Blackpool council recorded 35.0 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 3.2 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,053, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 778 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £116,700 to clear. It issued 72 fixed penalty notices, 17 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 1 prosecution.
Blackpool can light up the prom all it likes. A dumped bath still looks shit in fairy lights.