Flytipping figures released for Hampshire
Southampton saw the most incidents
Fly-tipping figures released by DEFRA show which areas in Hampshire have the most incidents of waste being illegally dumped.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have found that councils across England and Wales have dealt with 1.09m fly-tipping incidents last year.
Southampton saw the most incidents of fly-tipping across Hampshire with 9999 in total, of these 2941 were dumped on highways and 3408 were on land owned by Southampton City Council.
Basingstoke and Deane experienced 2169 incidents, the majority of which (1386) were on highways.
Waste was dumped 1732 times in Winchester district, of these 1414 were on highways and 180 on footpaths and bridleways.
The vast majority of fly-tipping in Havant was also done on highways making up 962 incidents out of 1147 in total.
Highway fly-tipping made up nearly half of all incidents in Test Valley which totalled 1051. Back alley tips amounted to 143 incidents and 311 were on council-owned land.
Hart district saw just over 1000 incidents with the lion’s share going to highway incidents which made up 874.
East Hampshire district saw exactly 1000 reported incidents, over half of which (572) were on highways and 196 on footpaths and bridleways.
Of the 891 fly-tips recorded in the New Forest 669 were found on footpaths with only 145 dumped on highways.
Eastleigh Borough Council recorded 826 incidents, the majority of which (267) is on council-owned land with highways and back alleys seeing 201 and 148 incidents respectively.
Highways and council-owned land saw the most illegally dumped waste in Rushmoor with 358 and 195 incidents making up 559 offences in total.
Portsmouth saw the third least amount of incidents across the county with 525 in total, of these 395 were on city council land and 111 were found on highways.
Gosport saw 398 misdeeds with 162 found on highways and 118 found on council land, 43 on private residences and 29 on green spaces.
Fareham saw the least amount of fly-tipping across Hampshire with 360 incidents, 196 of which were on council-owned land, 130 on highways and 32 on green spaces.