Balloon Barn Farm
Inert
Balloon Barn Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It received inert waste until 1992, covering about 0.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD01434, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01434 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Balloon Barn Farm |
| Address | Culford |
| Site operator | R and S Y Spittle |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 0.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 584900, 272100 |
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
- Culford RoadCommercial
- The FollyWaste types not recorded
- The FollyInert
- Thetford RoadHouseholdCommercial
- The Follys QuarryIndustrial
- The Follys QuarryWaste 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.