Ealing council recorded 50.1 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 4.6 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 25,394, most of them on the highway. Of those, 145 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £36,250 to clear. It issued 2,429 fixed penalty notices, 322 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
They call Ealing the Queen of the Suburbs. Nobody's told the bloke dumping his settee in Acton.