Crap Towns / Lincoln / Fly-tipping
How bad is fly-tipping in Lincoln? Lincoln council recorded 30.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.8 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 4,653, most of them on the highway. It issued 21 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.
Steep Hill is a hell of a climb just to prove you're too lazy to go to the tip.
Over time Year Incidents 2012-13 933 2013-14 1,039 2014-15 1,258 2015-16 1,248 2016-17 1,127 2017-18 1,628 2018-19 2,450 2019-20 1,961 2020-21 1,517 2021-22 2,877 2022-23 2,289 2023-24 2,668 2024-25 4,653
Where it was dumped, 2024-25 Where Incidents The highway 4,650 Footpaths and bridleways 2 Council land 1 Back alleys 0 Commercial and industrial land 0 Farmland 0 Not recorded 0 Private and residential land 0 Railway land 0 Rivers, streams and their banks 0
What was dumped, 2024-25 What Incidents Other household rubbish 2,725 Black bags from homes 580 Other business waste 294 White goods 281 Building, demolition and excavation waste 247 Other electrical 204 Not recorded 199 Garden waste 72 Tyres 47 Black bags from businesses 3 Clinical waste 1 Animal carcasses 0 Asbestos 0 Chemical drums, oil and fuel 0 Vehicle parts 0
How big, 2024-25 Size Incidents A single black bag 124 A single item 146 A car boot or less 714 A small van load 2,169 A transit van load 1,500 A tipper lorry load 0 Significant or multiple loads 0
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