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Data Provider: Welsh Government Recorded fly-tipping incidents by land type

These figures are published as Official Statistics. The statistics are based on the returns made by local authorities to the Waste Data Flow database. The statistics do not cover fly-tipping incidents on private land, and not all incidents of fly-tipping will be reported to the local authority.

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[Collapse]Incidents by land type54,84161,99555,34948,17941,75036,41134,87632,93431,71336,25938,61435,43435,07633,54041,07141,33339,85342,171
Incidents by land typeHighway28,96534,33726,10120,10118,31915,36815,12713,39014,32719,92422,82819,07214,98115,63118,16920,84820,38821,855
Footpath / bridleway2,9563,2454,8565,0083,6512,6732,4822,2962,5102,3782,4262,2172,4972,2922,9122,6812,3232,627
Back alleyway7,3376,2148,6097,3155,9006,0765,5506,3176,0775,8315,4625,0955,1204,6117,2246,1865,7715,889
Railway6010277785240283867585918203728191521
Council land12,42214,22712,43211,1709,5098,9369,3937,4125,4796,0705,6146,3216,3674,4878,4697,1956,3547,024
Agricultural230174126114138133110168155185194207201328360200153163
Private / residential9531,7325886141,3481,1476811,4701,1798217339021,1568601,188789648750
Commercial / industrial446443307666310285243259245185196260242267789444368261
Watercourse / bank259208247299257389241300211203263268258268206226198263
Other land type (unidentified)1,2131,3132,0062,8142,2661,3641,0211,2841,463(..) Where the number of incidents by land type submitted by local authorities summed to less than their total recorded incidents, the unreported incidents have been included in the Other (unidentified) category.6048391,074(..) For 2018-19, Carmarthenshire was unable to provide a breakdown of incidents by land type. For this reason, all incidents in Carmarthenshire have been categorised as \'Other land type (unidentified)\'.4,2344,7591,7262,7453,6353,318

Metadata

Title

Local Authority Recorded Fly-tipping

Last update

November 2024 November 2024

Next update

November 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

WasteDataFlow, Natural Resources Wales

Contact email

stats.environment@gov.wales

Designation

None

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Local authorities

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

Summary of fly-tipping incidents, enforcement actions and prosecution outcomes.

Data collection and calculation

The statistics are based on the returns made by local authorities to the Waste Data Flow database. The statistics do not cover fly-tipping incidents on private land, and not all incidents of fly-tipping will be reported to the local authority.

The costs for the size categories (single items, single black bags, car boot or less, small van loads and transit van loads) are set in the system based on national averages. For the other categories (tipper lorry loads and significant multiple loads), the costs are entered by the local authority. As these costs vary, a rise or decrease in incidents will not necessarily have the same rise or decrease in costs.

It should be noted that prosecutions do not necessarily take place in the same year as the relevant fly-tipping incident occurs.

Whilst fly-tipping figures are no longer designated as “National Statistics”, they continue to be published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

2006-07 onwards

Users, uses and context

Data on fly-tipping in Wales is collected in order to help the Welsh Government, local authorities and other agencies to monitor the situation in Wales

Revisions information

Revisions are marked with an (r).

Keywords

Fly-tipping

Statistical quality

The statistics are based on the returns made by local authorities to the Waste Data Flow database. The statistics do not cover fly-tipping incidents on private land, and not all incidents of fly-tipping will be reported to the local authority.

Further data is provided in the Quality Report.