Landfill Check

Anchorage Farm

HouseholdInert

Anchorage Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Austell, Cornwall. It received household and inert waste between 1986 and 1994, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD08030, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08030
Site nameAnchorage Farm
AddressCriggan, St Austell
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderP Amos, Mr Stock or V Crawley
Licence issued10 February 1988
Licence surrendered21 July 1994
First waste input1 February 1986
Last waste input21 July 1994
Area0.22 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCornwall SW
Grid reference201400, 60800

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.