Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Haslemere, Surrey

The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Haslemere, Surrey. covering roughly 28 hectares in total. The largest is Hazlehurst at 7.23 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Hazlehurst7.23 ha1986Inert
Wareham Brickworks4.54 ha1997Inert
Parish Field3.97 haWaste types not recorded
Hammer Refuse Tip2.23 ha1971Commercial
Lower Lodge Farm1.85 ha1993Inert
Nursery Field1.82 ha1985Waste types not recorded
Lythe Hill Gardens1.33 ha1991Inert
Hammer Lane1.07 haWaste types not recorded
Blackdown Hill0.99 ha1977Inert
Woolfords Farm0.67 ha1997Inert
Churt Place0.65 haHouseholdCommercialInert
ICI Bridgelands0.49 ha1978IndustrialInert
Oak Tree Lane0.35 ha1985IndustrialInert
Stoney Brook Farm0.3 ha1987HouseholdCommercialInert
Shopp Hill0.2 ha1990Inert
Holmens Grove, Brook0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Lythe Hill Park0.2 haSpecialIndustrialInert
Pigeon Hill0.12 ha1990Inert
Greenacre Farm0.11 ha1993Waste types not recorded
Chase Lane0.01 haWaste 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 Haslemere?
20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Haslemere 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 Haslemere?
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.