Landfill Check

Alverstone Lynch

Inert

Alverstone Lynch is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sandown, Isle of Wight. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD34081, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34081
Site nameAlverstone Lynch
AddressAlverstone, Isle of Wight
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderIsle of Wight County Council
Licence issued12 December 1979
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1980
Last waste input1 January 1989
Area0.22 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference458200, 85700

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.

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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.