Crap Towns / Coventry / Fly-tipping

How bad is fly-tipping in Coventry?

Coventry council recorded 19.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 7,188, most of them on the highway. It issued 199 fixed penalty notices, 70 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.

**Over time**
Year	Incidents
2012-13	2,836
2013-14	2,287
2014-15	2,811
2015-16	2,316
2016-17	3,342
2017-18	4,704
2018-19	6,922
2019-20	6,955
2020-21	10,727
2021-22	8,473
2022-23	6,840
2023-24	5,883
2024-25	7,188

**Where it was dumped, 2024-25**
Where	Incidents
The highway	6,712
Council land	237
Back alleys	175
Footpaths and bridleways	30
Commercial and industrial land	11
Private and residential land	11
Rivers, streams and their banks	9
Farmland	2
Railway land	1
Not recorded	0

**What was dumped, 2024-25**
What	Incidents
Other household rubbish	5,551
Black bags from homes	678
White goods	568
Building, demolition and excavation waste	110
Garden waste	68
Other electrical	53
Vehicle parts	46
Other business waste	42
Tyres	30
Not recorded	15
Chemical drums, oil and fuel	12
Black bags from businesses	9
Asbestos	5
Clinical waste	1
Animal carcasses	0

**How big, 2024-25**
Size	Incidents
A single black bag	34
A single item	1,173
A car boot or less	2,109
A small van load	3,259
A transit van load	613
A tipper lorry load	0
Significant or multiple loads	0

**Nearby councils**
Council	Incidents per 1,000 people a year
Rugby	22.7
Coventry	19.2
Warwick	18.5
Solihull	17.2
Nuneaton and Bedworth	14.1
The typical English council	11.0