Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Hedge End, Hampshire

The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Hedge End, Hampshire. covering roughly 183 hectares in total. The largest is Green Lane, Phase B C and D at 30.89 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Green Lane, Phase B C and D30.89 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hook Tip25.54 ha1979Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Westwood Phase 321.28 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land at Bursledon Brickworks18.34 ha—Inert
Old Clay Pond12.34 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hook Gravel Pit10.43 ha—Inert
Car Boot Sale Site9.23 ha—Household
Quobb Farm/hatch Farm9.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjacent to Dibles Bottom8.01 ha—Household
Knowlehill Lane7.16 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Hardings Copse and Scotland Copse4.71 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Providence Hill3.52 ha—Inert
Recreation Ground At Pilands Wood3.37 ha—Household
Sunny Bank Sand and Tipping Limited2.31 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Spear Pond Gully1.98 ha—Household
Moorlands1.97 ha—Waste types not recorded
Ashley Crescent Off Portsmouth Road1.7 ha—Household
Between Somerton Avenue and Selbourne Avenue1.45 ha—Household
Knowle Lane1.28 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Sullivan Road - Botley Road1.17 ha—Waste types not recorded
Site A Land Adjacent To Lowry Gardens1.04 ha—Household
South West of Dempsey Close1.02 ha—Household
Land Adjacent to Bursledon Road0.95 ha—Household
Land at Heathhouse Lane0.86 ha—Inert
Land Off Hound Road0.8 ha—Household
Butts Road - Shooters Hill Close0.74 ha—Household
Pinkmead Farm0.72 ha1955Inert
Site B Land Adjacent To Lowry Gardens0.49 ha—Household
Scotland Copse0.4 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Botley House Country Club0.25 ha—Inert
Kanes Hill Gravel Pit0.2 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 Hedge End?
31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hedge End 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 Hedge End?
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.