Crap Towns / Brent / Fly-tipping
How bad is fly-tipping in Brent? Brent council recorded 76.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 7.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 16,338, most of them on the highway. Of those, 36 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £4,925 to clear. It issued 3,655 fixed penalty notices and brought 4 prosecutions.
Over time Year Incidents 2012-13 6,911 2013-14 7,001 2014-15 12,912 2015-16 13,198 2016-17 17,340 2017-18 18,609 2018-19 23,965 2019-20 34,197 2020-21 33,467 2021-22 35,840 2022-23 34,830 2023-24 27,023 2024-25 16,338
Where it was dumped, 2024-25 Where Incidents The highway 15,621 Footpaths and bridleways 650 Council land 40 Back alleys 17 Private and residential land 7 Commercial and industrial land 2 Farmland 1 Not recorded 0 Railway land 0 Rivers, streams and their banks 0
What was dumped, 2024-25 What Incidents Black bags from homes 6,975 Other household rubbish 5,549 Building, demolition and excavation waste 2,006 White goods 1,746 Other business waste 20 Black bags from businesses 16 Garden waste 12 Other electrical 7 Tyres 5 Asbestos 1 Chemical drums, oil and fuel 1 Animal carcasses 0 Clinical waste 0 Not recorded 0 Vehicle parts 0
How big, 2024-25 Size Incidents A single black bag 24 A single item 7,130 A car boot or less 3,855 A small van load 3,815 A transit van load 1,478 A tipper lorry load 5 Significant or multiple loads 31
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