Breakdown of litter / fly tip reports and fines
Request received 11 November 2025:
Littering Fines
1. Do you issue fines for littering? (YES/NO)
2. If so, at what level do you levy fines?
Enforcement & Statistics
3. Do you use an in-house team or a private enforcement company to issue fines for littering?
4. How many Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for littering did you issue in 2024/2025 (to date)?
5. How many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for car parking did you issue in 2024/2025 (to date)?
Litter Bins
6. How many litter bins do you have in your council area now?
7. How many litter bins did you have 10 years ago (2014/2015)?
8. Have you removed any litter bins in the past 10 years, and if so, how many?
Litter Clearance Costs
9. What was your annual spending on litter clearance in 2024/2025 compared to 2014/2015?
Fly-tipping
10. How many people did you catch fly-tipping in 2024?
11. How many FPNs did you issue for fly-tipping in 2024?
12. How many of the FPNs issued for fly-tipping were paid?
13. How many people did you prosecute for fly-tipping in court in 2024?
14. How many of the court prosecutions resulted in a custodial sentence for fly-tipping?
Responded 21 November 2025:
1. Yes
2. £65 - £500
3. In house
4. 10
5. 289 (Please note: East Cambridgeshire District Council issues Fixed Penalty Charges for car parking in council owned and managed car parks only).
6. Around 750, although we are currently undertaking a project to map all of them so this figure may increase.
7. Information Not Held
8. Information Not Held; please note however, we rarely remove litter bins.
9. We do not hold information specific for litter clearance. The budget for street cleansing, which includes street sweeping, litter clearance, emptying dog bins, removing graffiti and fly tipping was £1,016,706 in 24/25 and £637,157 in 14/15.
10. 0
11. 1 withdrawn
12. 0
13. 0
14. 0
The Council considers that the requested information falls within the Environmental Information Regulations (“EIR”), which relate to information on activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors of the environment. In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act;
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
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