Crap Towns / Stevenage / Fly-tipping
How bad is fly-tipping in Stevenage? Stevenage council recorded 30.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,058, most of them on council land. Of those, 113 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £39,610 to clear. It issued 4 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.
Over time Year Incidents 2012-13 2,403 2013-14 3,692 2014-15 3,410 2015-16 2,849 2016-17 4,287 2017-18 2,468 2018-19 2,062 2019-20 1,794 2020-21 3,156 2021-22 3,223 2022-23 2,900 2023-24 2,151 2024-25 3,058
Where it was dumped, 2024-25 Where Incidents Council land 2,454 Footpaths and bridleways 532 Private and residential land 60 The highway 11 Not recorded 1 Back alleys 0 Commercial and industrial land 0 Farmland 0 Railway land 0 Rivers, streams and their banks 0
What was dumped, 2024-25 What Incidents Other household rubbish 1,640 Black bags from homes 474 Not recorded 368 Other electrical 259 Building, demolition and excavation waste 130 White goods 78 Garden waste 50 Black bags from businesses 15 Chemical drums, oil and fuel 12 Vehicle parts 12 Other business waste 11 Tyres 7 Clinical waste 2 Animal carcasses 0 Asbestos 0
How big, 2024-25 Size Incidents A single black bag 37 A single item 256 A car boot or less 969 A small van load 1,200 A transit van load 483 A tipper lorry load 107 Significant or multiple loads 6
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