Wandsworth Borough has second fewest fly-tips in inner London according to Government data

Recent data released by the Government show that Wandsworth has had the second-lowest number of recorded fly-tips in inner London.

The data recorded shows the total number of fly-tips recorded from the 2012/13 to 2019/20 datasets. Wandsworth had 4,745 recorded fly-tips - over the same period, Merton had 13,047 fly-tip incidents, Hammersmith & Fulham 13,332, Westminster 15,283, Kensington & Chelsea 6,490 and Lambeth 6,638.

Other boroughs suffering serious fly-tip issues include Croydon with 25,532 incidents last year, Hounslow with 22,480 and Brent with 34,197.

London's worst affected borough was Camden with 34,465 reported fly-tips.

Across London's 32 boroughs just over 360,000 fly-tips were recorded. This means that Wandsworth suffered only 1.3 per cent of the capital's fly-tips.

Environment spokeswoman Councillor Steffi Suters said: "These figures confirm that flytipping is a serious problem across the country – and that London in particular suffers badly from this environmental crime.

"But the data shows quite clearly that here in Wandsworth we have many fewer cases than most other parts of the capital.

"While this is welcome news we fully recognise that a single fly-tip is one too many so we will not be complacent about the challenges we face in keeping our streets and parks clean and free of fly-tips.

"We know for sure that some local neighbourhoods are more badly affected than others and residents in these areas can rest assured we are putting in extra resources to tackle this problem."

The council says that it has introduced a number of initiatives to prevent professional fly-tippers from negatively affecting our streets.

These include rules for businesses about how they place their refuse before it's collected, stepping up their inspection efforts and increasing their enforcement.

Sutters added: "Because it is important to clean up fly-tips swiftly before they get any bigger we have are urging residents to report them to us so we can nip any problems in the bud.

"And if anyone has information about people or businesses dumping waste on our streets then please notify us immediately so we can take the appropriate action."