Historic landfill sites in Gloucester, Gloucestershire
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Gloucester, Gloucestershire. covering roughly 320 hectares in total. The largest is Gloucester Refuse Tip at 109.9 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Gloucester (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester Refuse Tip | 109.9 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Sudmeadow Road | 64.78 ha | — | Commercial |
| Gloucester Catttle Market | 35 ha | — | Household |
| Quedgeley | 23.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Landfill Site at Naas Lane/Waterwells Farm | 15.43 ha | 1990 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| The Noake, Near Hucclecote | 14.48 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Land at Highgrove Way | 11.87 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Naas Lane | 9.76 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Central Electricity Generating Board | 9.64 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialCommercial |
| Near Coney Hill | 7.33 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Overton Claypit | 2.85 ha | — | Inert |
| Church Farm | 2.77 ha | — | Inert |
| Over Lassington Lane | 2.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Drymeadow Farm Landfill Site | 2.34 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Murcott Farm | 1.43 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| RAF Quedgeley | 1.42 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Sudmeadow Road | 1.36 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Bristol Road | 1.13 ha | 1971 | Waste types not recorded |
| Dowty Rotol | 0.6 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Upper Rea Farm | 0.52 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Land of Sandycroft Road | 0.37 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Holding No.7 | 0.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Moat Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Between 24 and 28 Hempsted Lane | 0.19 ha | — | Inert |
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 Gloucester?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Gloucester 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 Gloucester?
- 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.