The government collects lots of data from councils. For example, if you click here you can find out what each council in England has done about fly-tipping. The most recent data is for the civic year 2011-2012.
Reading through the stats, Rochford had 384 fly-tipping incidents (356 on the highways, 23 on council land , 1 agricultural and 4 on private land. The council spent ?12,672 on clearing things up.
You can see for yourself whether Rochford actually took any legal action against anyone…