Landfill Check

Beacon Hill

Inert

Beacon Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penryn, Cornwall. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1994, covering about 0.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD08657, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08657
Site nameBeacon Hill
AddressPenryn, Cornwall
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCornwall County Council
Licence issued29 October 1992
Licence surrendered16 May 1994
First waste input31 December 1992
Last waste input25 January 1994
Area0.88 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCornwall SW
Grid reference177800, 33500

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

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.