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Historic landfill sites in Hatfield, Hertfordshire

The Environment Agency records 37 historic landfill sites in and around Hatfield, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 274 hectares in total. The largest is Smallford at 58.95 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Smallford58.95 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Hatfield Quarry36.64 ha1987Inert
Hatfield Quarry29.86 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hatfield Quarry20.23 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Smallford14.74 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Rainbow Garage14.3 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Roehyde Pit12.06 ha1984SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Church Lane9.56 ha1975IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
North Orbital Road7.8 ha1966HouseholdCommercial
Oak Farm6.79 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hatfield Quarry, St Albans6.56 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smallford4.92 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Smallford4.92 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Smallford4.92 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Hatfield Quarry Phase 74.75 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Smallford3.88 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Rainbow Garage3.56 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Broadwater3.47 ha1989Inert
Hatfield Quarry3.25 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Colney Heath Farm3.14 ha—Inert
Colney Heath Pit2.4 ha—Inert
Tollgate Farm2.21 ha1994Inert
Smallford2.04 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Colney Heath Gravel Plant Site2.01 ha1985Inert
Smallford1.82 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smallford1.61 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Colney Heath Gravel Plant Site1.24 ha1985Inert
D'Arblay1.12 ha1992Waste types not recorded
Pinnock Field1.07 ha1948Industrial
Smallford0.88 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Pollards Playing Fields0.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smallford0.53 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Smallford0.53 ha1976HouseholdCommercialInert
Roehyde Pit0.46 ha1984IndustrialInert
Nast Hyde Farm0.45 ha1970Special
Colney Heath Gravel Plant Site0.4 ha1985Inert
Colney Heath Gravel Plant0.2 ha1985Inert

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 Hatfield?
37 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hatfield 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 Hatfield?
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.