Southwark council recorded 66.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 6.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 18,530, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. It issued 555 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.
Elephant and Castle. No elephant, no castle, just a sofa somebody dumped by the roundabout.