Historic landfill sites in Street, Somerset
The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Street, Somerset. covering roughly 59 hectares in total. The largest is Corporation Yard at 22.44 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Street (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporation Yard | 22.44 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ashcott Corner | 8.51 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land Adjacent to Wilderness Drove | 8.04 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Allotment Drove A | 5.8 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Porchestall Drove | 2.48 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Westhay - Burtle Road | 2 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Ashcott Road | 1.57 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Allotment Drove | 1.48 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Wilderness Drove | 1.31 ha | 1987 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Allotment Drove B | 0.99 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Walton Hill | 0.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Allotment Drove | 0.81 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Bolster Lane | 0.66 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Collard Hill | 0.5 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Ashcott Road Landfill Site | 0.42 ha | 1996 | IndustrialInert |
| Adjacent To Football Ground | 0.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Marshalls Elm | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| East Mead Lane | 0.21 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Cradlebridge | 0.19 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Overleigh | 0.13 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 Street?
- 20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Street 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 Street?
- 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.