Crap Towns / Sutton / Fly-tipping
How bad is fly-tipping in Sutton? Sutton council recorded 20.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.9 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,873, most of them on the highway. Of those, 278 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £97,300 to clear. It issued 125 fixed penalty notices and brought 2 prosecutions.
Over time Year Incidents 2012-13 1,512 2013-14 1,264 2014-15 1,575 2015-16 1,478 2016-17 2,296 2017-18 2,683 2018-19 3,151 2019-20 3,823 2020-21 4,487 2021-22 4,552 2022-23 4,946 2023-24 4,173 2024-25 3,873
Where it was dumped, 2024-25 Where Incidents The highway 3,616 Council land 157 Footpaths and bridleways 63 Not recorded 36 Back alleys 1 Commercial and industrial land 0 Farmland 0 Private and residential land 0 Railway land 0 Rivers, streams and their banks 0
What was dumped, 2024-25 What Incidents Not recorded 1,652 Other household rubbish 934 Black bags from homes 588 Building, demolition and excavation waste 335 Other electrical 217 Garden waste 130 Other business waste 11 Black bags from businesses 3 Chemical drums, oil and fuel 2 White goods 1 Animal carcasses 0 Asbestos 0 Clinical waste 0 Tyres 0 Vehicle parts 0
How big, 2024-25 Size Incidents A single black bag 1,297 A single item 48 A car boot or less 747 A small van load 1,500 A transit van load 1 A tipper lorry load 275 Significant or multiple loads 3
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