Crap Towns / Redbridge / Fly-tipping

How bad is fly-tipping in Redbridge?

Redbridge council recorded 23.1 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.1 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 8,189, most of them on the highway. Of those, 5 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £5,060 to clear. It issued 1,114 fixed penalty notices, 51 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 26 prosecutions.

Over time
YearIncidents
2012-136,986
2013-148,939
2014-1511,066
2015-1610,864
2016-17–
2017-1813,120
2018-19–
2019-2019,897
2020-2126,053
2021-226,035
2022-236,713
2023-246,637
2024-258,189
Where it was dumped, 2024-25
WhereIncidents
The highway6,256
Council land658
Back alleys645
Footpaths and bridleways358
Private and residential land142
Not recorded81
Commercial and industrial land25
Rivers, streams and their banks14
Farmland7
Railway land3
What was dumped, 2024-25
WhatIncidents
Other household rubbish2,735
Black bags from homes1,931
Building, demolition and excavation waste773
Animal carcasses753
Other business waste503
Black bags from businesses442
White goods321
Garden waste242
Other electrical161
Chemical drums, oil and fuel96
Vehicle parts89
Tyres54
Clinical waste45
Not recorded30
Asbestos14
How big, 2024-25
SizeIncidents
A single black bag343
A single item2,653
A car boot or less2,331
A small van load55
A transit van load2,802
A tipper lorry load2
Significant or multiple loads3
Nearby councils
CouncilIncidents per 1,000 people a year
Hackney118
Newham60.4
Waltham Forest34.5
Tower Hamlets30.8
Epping Forest23.4
Redbridge23.1
Barking and Dagenham23.0
Havering14.2
The typical English council11.0