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Historic landfill sites in Bungay, Suffolk

The Environment Agency records 7 historic landfill sites in and around Bungay, Suffolk. covering roughly 43 hectares in total. The largest is Flixton Park at 36.03 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Bungay (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Flixton Park36.03 ha1998Inert
Flixton Park3.78 ha1998Inert
Homersfield Road1.53 ha1998Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Low Road0.72 haWaste types not recorded
Annis Hill0.62 haWaste types not recorded
Off Albion Road0.42 haWaste types not recorded
Earsham0.28 ha1996IndustrialCommercialInert

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Bungay?
7 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bungay town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Bungay?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.