Crap Towns / City of London / Fly-tipping

How bad is fly-tipping in City of London?

City of London council recorded 270 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 24.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,655, most of them on the highway. It issued 1,035 fixed penalty notices, 336 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.

**Over time**
Year	Incidents
2012-13	449
2013-14	530
2014-15	369
2015-16	627
2016-17	1,731
2017-18	1,826
2018-19	1,501
2019-20	1,804
2020-21	2,112
2021-22	2,497
2022-23	2,998
2023-24	2,315
2024-25	1,655

**Where it was dumped, 2024-25**
Where	Incidents
The highway	1,655
Back alleys	0
Commercial and industrial land	0
Council land	0
Farmland	0
Footpaths and bridleways	0
Not recorded	0
Private and residential land	0
Railway land	0
Rivers, streams and their banks	0

**What was dumped, 2024-25**
What	Incidents
Other business waste	586
Not recorded	560
Other household rubbish	159
Black bags from homes	144
Black bags from businesses	140
Building, demolition and excavation waste	40
Garden waste	12
Other electrical	6
White goods	5
Chemical drums, oil and fuel	1
Tyres	1
Vehicle parts	1
Animal carcasses	0
Asbestos	0
Clinical waste	0

**How big, 2024-25**
Size	Incidents
A single black bag	47
A single item	216
A car boot or less	1,124
A small van load	255
A transit van load	13
A tipper lorry load	0
Significant or multiple loads	0

**Nearby councils**
Council	Incidents per 1,000 people a year
City of London	270
Camden	163
Westminster	125
Hackney	118
Lewisham	94.7
Haringey	70.2
Southwark	66.5
Kensington and Chelsea	51.2
Lambeth	39.8
Tower Hamlets	30.8
Islington	9.2
The typical English council	11.0