Landfill Check

A303 Shores Hill

Inert

A303 Shores Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Petherton, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 1.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD08570, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08570
Site nameA303 Shores Hill
AddressEast Of Petherton Bridge, Stoke-Sub-Hamdon
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWimpey Construction Limited
Licence issued26 June 1990
Licence surrendered16 February 1993
First waste input6 November 1989
Last waste input31 October 1991
Area1.27 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference345400, 116700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.