Historic landfill sites in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. covering roughly 100 hectares in total. The largest is The Folly at 16.38 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Bury St Edmunds (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Folly | 16.38 ha | — | Inert |
| Railway Cutting | 16.02 ha | 1978 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Thetford Road | 12.87 ha | 1988 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Near West Stow Heath | 11.87 ha | 1976 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Culford Road | 4.91 ha | 1973 | Commercial |
| Haberden | 4.7 ha | — | Household |
| Frost Realisations | 3.79 ha | 1987 | CommercialInert |
| Bury Sugar Beet Factory | 3.73 ha | — | Industrial |
| Fornham Bypass Construction | 3.32 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| The Follys Quarry | 3.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Follys Quarry | 3.03 ha | — | Industrial |
| British Sugar - Bury St Edmunds Sugar Factory | 3.02 ha | — | Industrial |
| Tayfen Meadow | 2.03 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Mount Road | 1.54 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Cutting | 1.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hand Laundry Tips | 1.38 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Little Livermere | 1.27 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Land off Green Lane | 1.04 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Balloon Barn Farm | 0.73 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Church Lane | 0.71 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Balloon Barn Farm | 0.49 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Paddock | 0.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rushbrooke Lane | 0.39 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| South of Stowlangtoft Spinney | 0.37 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Sicklesmere Road | 0.21 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Rushbrooke Lane | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Folly | 0.2 ha | 1973 | Waste types not recorded |
| The Butts | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Culford School | 0.1 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hall Farm | 0.08 ha | — | Inert |
| Wollaston Close | 0.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
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 Bury St Edmunds?
- 31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds?
- 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.