Hounslow council recorded 90.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 8.3 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 25,177, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. Of those, 30 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £8,550 to clear. It issued 4 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Hounslow Heath was full of highwaymen once. It's blokes in vans dumping rubble now, which is worse.