Lewes council recorded 4.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 62% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 506, most of them on council land. Of those, 23 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £6,800 to clear. It issued 17 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.