Barry Docks Area B
Industrial
Barry Docks Area B is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received industrial waste between 1945 and 1994, covering about 5.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD14911, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD14911 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barry Docks Area B |
| Address | Atlantic Trading Estate, Atlantic Crescent, Barry, South Glamorgan |
| Site operator | BP Chemicals Limited |
| Licence holder | BP Chemicals Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 5.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East CY |
| Grid reference | 312700, 166900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barry Docks Area A and BSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Barry Docks Area ASpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- 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.