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Historic landfill sites in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

The Environment Agency records 54 historic landfill sites in and around Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. covering roughly 457 hectares in total. The largest is Conduit Lane at 62.73 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Waltham Cross (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Conduit Lane62.73 ha1985Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
Former Enfield Sewage Works54.85 ha1980Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
Waltham Marshes35.98 ha1977IndustrialCommercialInert
Cheshunt Marsh27.14 ha1977IndustrialCommercialInert
Brimsdown25.39 ha1966Liquid / sludge
Montagu Road18.37 ha1953Waste types not recorded
Crown Road15.01 ha1958Waste types not recorded
Montagu Road13.84 ha1965Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Hoe Lane Gravel Pits13 ha1985SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Sewardstone Landfill12.32 ha1970Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Tottenham Marshes11.3 ha1962IndustrialInert
Cheshunt Marsh North10.65 ha1977Inert
Cadmore Lane9.57 ha1963Inert
Enfield Crematorium9.18 ha1970Liquid / sludgeHousehold
Eleanor Cross Road8.31 ha1956Inert
Eleanor Cross Road8.21 ha—Inert
Brimsdown Playing Fields8.07 ha1958Industrial
Priory Court Estate8 ha1950SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Park Lane7.57 ha1971SpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
Old Road6.86 ha1913Waste types not recorded
Hollywood Gardens6.07 ha1945Waste types not recorded
Turin Fields5.86 ha1980Waste types not recorded
Latymer Road5 ha1956HouseholdCommercial
Thistley Marsh4.91 ha1966Inert
Turners Hill Marsh4.73 ha1977Inert
Britannia Nurseries4.01 ha1992Inert
The Dell3.99 ha1969IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Walthamstow Avenue Allotments3.97 ha1980HouseholdCommercialInert
Carterhatch Lane3.95 ha1950Waste types not recorded
St George's Field3.56 ha1936Industrial
Barrowell Green3.49 ha1980Household
Jubilee Park3.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lee Valley Trading Estate2.82 ha—Waste types not recorded
Picketts Lock Lane2.8 ha1971Household
Thorogood's2.67 ha1970Inert
Cheney Road Open Space2.62 ha1972Inert
Aylands Open Space2.53 ha—Waste types not recorded
Chingford South Pumping Station2.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Ruberroid Playing Fields2.41 ha1938Waste types not recorded
Hall Marsh2.16 ha—Inert
Suffield Hatch2.01 ha1955Waste types not recorded
Provident Park1.93 ha1945HouseholdCommercialInert
Rear of Victoria Road1.57 ha1985Waste types not recorded
Mansfield Park1.54 ha1964Inert
Enfield Crematorium1.52 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land off Riverhead Close1.49 ha1962Inert
Albany Park Mound1.43 ha1975Waste types not recorded
Cheshunt Marsh1.38 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Trinity Lane South Allotments1.16 ha1992Inert
Trinity Lane South Allotments1.1 ha—Waste types not recorded
River Lea0.92 ha—Inert
Pit at Goat Lane0.42 ha1991Inert
Caterhatch Lane0.35 ha—Waste types not recorded
Metropolitan Police Pit0.21 ha1990Inert

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 Waltham Cross?
54 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Waltham Cross 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 Waltham Cross?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.