Barry Docks Area A and B
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Barry Docks Area A and B is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1945 and 1994, covering about 16.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD14909, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD14909 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barry Docks Area A and B |
| Address | Atlantic Trading Estate, Atlantic Crescent, Barry, South Glamorgan |
| Site operator | BP Chemicals Limited |
| Licence holder | BP Chemicals Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 March 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 16.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East CY |
| Grid reference | 312800, 167100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barry Docks Area ASpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Barry Docks Area BIndustrial
- Ministry of Defence SiteIndustrialHousehold
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.