Lewisham council recorded 94.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 8.6 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 33,471, most of them on the highway. Of those, 17 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £4,250 to clear. It issued 748 fixed penalty notices, 278 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Lewisham's fly-tippers have taken the Millwall song to heart. Nobody likes them and they don't care.