Balnoon - Trink Common
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Balnoon - Trink Common is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Ives, Cornwall. It received industrial, household and inert waste from 1967, covering about 1.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD08097, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08097 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Balnoon - Trink Common |
| Address | St Ives |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cornwall County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.76 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 150700, 37900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- The Curlews, BalnoonIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Penderleath CommonWaste types not recorded
- Nance TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- HalsetownWaste types not recorded
- Little TrinkInert
- Little Trink LandfillInert
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.