Beechcroft Farmhouse
Inert
Beechcroft Farmhouse is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hailsham, East Sussex. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1989, covering about 7.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD20229, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20229 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Beechcroft Farmhouse |
| Address | Cowbeech, Hailsham, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 8 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 March 1991 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 16 October 1989 |
| Area | 7.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 562100, 114400 |
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
- Church FarmInert
- Chilsham LaneInert
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.