Historic landfill sites in Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth
The Environment Agency records 32 historic landfill sites in and around Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth. covering roughly 479 hectares in total. The largest is Reclaimed Land In Paulsgrove Area at 105.61 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Portsmouth (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reclaimed Land In Paulsgrove Area | 105.61 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Paulsgrove Tip | 78.41 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land South Of Burfields Road | 59.32 ha | — | Household |
| Milton Common - Lake | 41.25 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Land East Of Baffins Pond | 26.39 ha | — | Household |
| Tipner - Stamshaw Area 1 | 23.71 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Alexandra Park | 15.88 ha | — | Household |
| King George V Playing Field | 15.73 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Paulsgrove landfill Site | 14.66 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sports Field East of Eastern Road | 13.47 ha | 1960 | Household |
| North Harbour Allotments | 12.31 ha | — | Household |
| Continental Ferry Port | 9.38 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Victoria Trading Estate | 7.98 ha | — | Household |
| Moneyfield Allotments | 7.45 ha | — | Household |
| Tipner - Stamshaw | 6.5 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Eastney Lake | 6.02 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Stamshaw Park | 5.81 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Longmeadow Allotments | 4.66 ha | — | Household |
| Hilsea Gasworks, refuse disposal area | 4.36 ha | — | Industrial |
| Stamshaw Area Site A | 3.12 ha | — | Inert |
| The Glory Hole | 3.07 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Horsea Allotments | 2.97 ha | — | Household |
| MOD site | 2.68 ha | 1970 | Waste types not recorded |
| Salisbury Road Allotments | 2.27 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeInert |
| Henderson Road Caravan Park | 1.33 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Site B South Of Ferry Road | 1.21 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Kendalls Quay | 1.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Twyford Wharf | 0.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stamshaw Area Site B | 0.46 ha | — | Inert |
| Great Salterns Quay | 0.28 ha | — | Household |
| Stamshaw Chemical Works | 0.27 ha | — | Industrial |
| Moneyfield and Longmeadows Allotments | 0.16 ha | 1950 | HouseholdInert |
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 Portsmouth?
- 32 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth?
- 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.