Historic landfill sites in St Ives, Cambridgeshire
The Environment Agency records 21 historic landfill sites in and around St Ives, Cambridgeshire. covering roughly 111 hectares in total. The largest is Parsons Drove Landfill at 23.15 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around St Ives (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parsons Drove Landfill | 23.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woolpack Farm | 14.18 ha | 1974 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Conington Landfill | 12.96 ha | 1993 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Gravel Pits | 12.45 ha | 1984 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Meadow Lane | 7.85 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Heath Road | 6.2 ha | 1983 | Household |
| M Dickerson Ltd - Woolpack Farm | 5.94 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Second Drove | 5.83 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Mick George Ltd - Second Drove Meadow Lane | 5.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stonepit | 2.76 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Mill Road | 2.6 ha | 1975 | Waste types not recorded |
| Hale Road | 2 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Mick George Ltd - Second Drove Meadow Lane | 1.98 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Somersham Landfill | 1.94 ha | 1986 | HouseholdInert |
| Hill Farm | 1.63 ha | — | Inert |
| Meadow Lane | 1.57 ha | — | Inert |
| Marsh Lane Quarry | 1.49 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Marsh Lane Quarry | 0.55 ha | 1993 | Inert |
| Meadow Lane | 0.46 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Meadow Lane | 0.46 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Meadow Lane | 0.2 ha | 1983 | 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 St Ives?
- 21 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of St Ives 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 St Ives?
- 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.