Crap Towns / Pendle / Fly-tipping

How bad is fly-tipping in Pendle?

Pendle council recorded 51.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 4.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 6,186, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 14 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £4,910 to clear. It issued 81 fixed penalty notices, 2 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.

**Over time**
Year	Incidents
2012-13	5,065
2013-14	4,369
2014-15	2,762
2015-16	3,745
2016-17	5,704
2017-18	5,244
2018-19	2,155
2019-20	3,163
2020-21	5,716
2021-22	5,002
2022-23	3,884
2023-24	4,646
2024-25	6,186

**Where it was dumped, 2024-25**
Where	Incidents
Back alleys	5,754
The highway	185
Council land	80
Not recorded	77
Footpaths and bridleways	47
Rivers, streams and their banks	15
Private and residential land	12
Commercial and industrial land	8
Railway land	5
Farmland	3

**What was dumped, 2024-25**
What	Incidents
Other household rubbish	3,147
Black bags from homes	1,096
Building, demolition and excavation waste	971
White goods	391
Other electrical	150
Not recorded	90
Tyres	75
Other business waste	67
Vehicle parts	62
Garden waste	58
Chemical drums, oil and fuel	46
Black bags from businesses	21
Asbestos	6
Animal carcasses	3
Clinical waste	3

**How big, 2024-25**
Size	Incidents
A single black bag	15
A single item	992
A car boot or less	909
A small van load	3,369
A transit van load	887
A tipper lorry load	7
Significant or multiple loads	7

**Nearby councils**
Council	Incidents per 1,000 people a year
Pendle	51.2
Burnley	37.5
Hyndburn	33.2
Bradford	32.7
Ribble Valley	10.5
North Yorkshire	5.0
The typical English council	11.0