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Historic landfill sites in Loughton, Essex

The Environment Agency records 3 historic landfill sites in and around Loughton, Essex. covering roughly 18 hectares in total. The largest is Epping Forest Country Club at 14.72 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to household waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Epping Forest Country Club14.72 ha1966HouseholdCommercial
Piggotts Farm2.18 ha1976Inert
Chase Medow Tip0.98 ha1953Waste 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 Loughton?
3 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Loughton 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 Loughton?
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.