Historic landfill sites in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
The Environment Agency records 12 historic landfill sites in and around Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 67 hectares in total. The largest is East Barnet Sewage Works at 11.34 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Potters Bar (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Barnet Sewage Works | 11.34 ha | 1965 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Friern Hospital | 10.46 ha | 1974 | Inert |
| Wrotham Park | 9.37 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Friern Barnet Sewage works | 9.09 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Coppetts Centre | 7.82 ha | 1965 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Coppetts Close | 6.45 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Castle Chalk Pit | 6.01 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Great Northern Cemetery | 2.42 ha | 1979 | Waste types not recorded |
| Little Heath Tip | 2.41 ha | — | Inert |
| Lonsdale Meadows | 0.68 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Hawkeshead Lane | 0.38 ha | 1970 | Inert |
| The Enterprise Centre | 0.2 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 Potters Bar?
- 12 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Potters Bar 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 Potters Bar?
- 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.