Gravesham council recorded 22.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,574, with the highway the most common spot. Of those, 212 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £127,200 to clear. It issued 83 fixed penalty notices, 25 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 8 prosecutions.
A fly-tipper in Gravo can blame Dartford. That's the local paperwork done.