Brighton & Hove City Council issues 2,235 fly-tipping fines

The number of fly-tipping cases in Sussex has increased by 9% for the 2022/23 period

Brighton & Hove City Council has issued 2,235 fines for fly-tipping over a year, new government data shows.

The authority said the number of fines - which is more than any local authority outside London in 2022-23 - showed it was "serious about tackling" fly-tipping.

The council said its fly tipping hotline had been a "big success".

Across the rest of East and West Sussex, 267 fines were issued from April 2022 to March 2023.

The total of 2,502 fixed penalty notices were issued for 13,829 cases of fly-tipping across East and West Sussex, the figures from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) show.

Brighton is the only local authority in the top ten of a table of fixed penalty notices to not be a London borough.

Brighton & Hove City Council's lead councillor for the environment, Tim Rowkins, said: "Offenders should be in no doubt that they will be caught and either fined or, in more serious cases, prosecuted."

He added: "Our fly-tipping hotline has been a big success, allowing us to investigate incidents as quickly as possible when residents report them."

The Arun district had the highest number of reported fly-tipping incidents at 2,035, just ahead of Brighton & Hove's 2,032.

But in contrast to Brighton, Arun District Council issued no fines in 2022-23.

Neither councils took any fly-tippers to court.

Arun District Council has been approached for a comment.

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