How many former landfill sites are there in Heathfield?

22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Heathfield 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 Heathfield?

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.

Historic landfill sites in Heathfield, East Sussex

Name: EA Historic Landfill Sites
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence

The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Heathfield, East Sussex. covering roughly 12 hectares in total. The largest is Isenhurst at 3.75 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

Site	Area	Last input	Waste types
Isenhurst	3.75 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Knowle Farm	0.91 ha	1992	Inert
Cockers Pit, Stonehill Farm	0.86 ha	1992	HouseholdCommercialInert
Freemans Farm	0.84 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Stubpond Lane	0.82 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Burnt House Farm	0.77 ha	1989	IndustrialInert
Meres Lane	0.72 ha	1990	Inert
Merrydown	0.66 ha	1980	IndustrialInert
Durrants Farm	0.41 ha	1989	Inert
Holcotts Nursery	0.39 ha	1989	Inert
Coxlow Farm - ESCC	0.28 ha	1980	Inert
Scotsford Farm	0.2 ha	1986	IndustrialInert
Springfield Farm	0.2 ha	1990	Inert
Trulls Hatch Road	0.2 ha	1994	HouseholdCommercialInert
Bungehurst Farm	0.2 ha	1987	Inert
Swiffe Farm	0.2 ha	1992	Inert
Tottingworth Home Farm	0.2 ha	1987	HouseholdCommercialInert
Wellbrook Farm	0.19 ha	1992	IndustrialInert
Turners Wood	0.09 ha	—	Inert
The Spinney School	0.07 ha	—	Waste types not recorded
Hailsham Reclamation	0.04 ha	—	Liquid / sludge
Ghyll Road Industrial Estate	0.03 ha	1973	HouseholdCommercialInert

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 Heathfield?: 22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Heathfield 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 Heathfield?: 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.