Historic landfill sites in Crawley, West Sussex
The Environment Agency records 18 historic landfill sites in and around Crawley, West Sussex. covering roughly 79 hectares in total. The largest is Land off Horsham Road at 36.89 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Crawley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land off Horsham Road | 36.89 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Target Hill Nature Reserve | 6.53 ha | 1970 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Pease Pottage | 5.19 ha | 1977 | Inert |
| Dales Tip | 4.8 ha | 1975 | IndustrialInert |
| Golding Close | 3.78 ha | 1965 | Inert |
| Buchan Park | 3.67 ha | 1977 | IndustrialInert |
| Ilfield Road Brickworks | 3.17 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Worth Abbey | 2.67 ha | 1986 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Rusper Road | 2.5 ha | 1978 | Inert |
| Bonwycks Place | 2.46 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Compasses Crossing | 2.1 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Biltam Farm | 1.93 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Holmbush Potteries | 1.31 ha | 1968 | IndustrialInert |
| Lower Grouse - Pear Tree Farm | 1.02 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Little Foxes | 0.68 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Evergreen Farm | 0.23 ha | 1992 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Tilgate Forest Nature Centre Horse Paddock | 0.2 ha | — | Inert |
| Oaklands Park | 0.1 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
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 Crawley?
- 18 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Crawley 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 Crawley?
- 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.