Historic landfill sites in Newport, Isle of Wight
The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Newport, Isle of Wight. covering roughly 55 hectares in total. The largest is Lynn Plantation Gravel Pit at 8.99 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Newport (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Plantation Gravel Pit | 8.99 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lynn Bottom | 8.4 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Forest Site | 5.19 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Newport Joint Refuse Disposal Plant | 4.91 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hill Croft Farm | 4.12 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Bagwich Lane Pit | 3.75 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Lynn Tip | 2.51 ha | — | Commercial |
| Racecourse Landfill Site | 2.46 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Southview Dairy | 2.34 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Robin Hill Pit | 2.04 ha | 1994 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Staplers Farm | 1.83 ha | — | Inert |
| Dodnor Farm Field | 1.67 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Little Fairlee Farm | 1.62 ha | — | Inert |
| Station Road | 1.49 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| East Side of Wootton Railway Station | 1.02 ha | — | Inert |
| Long Lane Plantation | 0.86 ha | — | Inert |
| Refuse Tip at Ashengrove Farm | 0.57 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Fairlee Railway Cutting | 0.57 ha | — | Inert |
| Fairlee Gas Holder Sump Landfill | 0.39 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Fatting Park Bridge | 0.22 ha | — | Inert |
| Pet Cemetery | 0.22 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Pets At Rest | 0.17 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Newport Relief Road | 0.08 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 Newport?
- 23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Newport 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 Newport?
- 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.