Historic landfill sites in Plymouth, City of Plymouth
The Environment Agency records 38 historic landfill sites in and around Plymouth, City of Plymouth. covering roughly 215 hectares in total. The largest is Great Trehills Farm at 77.04 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Plymouth (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Trehills Farm | 77.04 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Lower Compton | 11.6 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stonehouse Lake | 10.96 ha | 1971 | Waste types not recorded |
| Honicknowle Brickworks | 8.62 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stonehouse Playing Fields | 8.1 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Woodlands Fort Cricket Pitch Honickn | 8 ha | — | Household |
| Stoke School Playing Field And Allotments | 7.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ham | 6.77 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Peverell Cricket Ground | 5.98 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Off Pendeen Crescent Soutrhway | 5.86 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Central Park Milehouse | 5.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tothill Park Recreation Ground | 4.96 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Derriford | 4.95 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Eggbuckland Road Efford Adj Cemetery | 4.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Valley View Close | 4.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Laira Lipson College | 4.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Embankment Road | 4.14 ha | — | Commercial |
| Victoria Park | 3.97 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Radford Quarry Oreston | 3.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| School Playing Field Laira | 2.81 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Blagdons Shipyard | 2.66 ha | — | Commercial |
| Crownhill | 2.26 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Laira | 2.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Former Warkham Quarry | 1.52 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Crownhill Sewage Works | 1.5 ha | — | Industrial |
| Cattledown Junction Playing Field | 1.41 ha | 1972 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Honicknowle Lane | 1.3 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bedford Quarry Oreston A | 1.02 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Allotments Embankment Road | 0.96 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Cattledown Road | 0.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Honicknowle To March Mill | 0.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bedford Quarry Oreston B | 0.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Tecalamet Marsh Mills | 0.76 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Coombe Farm | 0.75 ha | — | Household |
| MacAdam Road | 0.63 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Allern Farm | 0.48 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Plymstock Works | 0.34 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Severnside Waste Paper | 0.04 ha | — | Waste 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 Plymouth?
- 38 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Plymouth 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 Plymouth?
- 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.