Landfill Check

Beryllium Burial Pits

Waste types not recorded

Beryllium Burial Pits is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portishead, North Somerset. It received waste of unrecorded type in 1972, covering about 0.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD32269, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD32269
Site nameBeryllium Burial Pits
AddressKings Weston Lane, Avonmouth, Avon
Site operatorR T Z Estates
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 May 1972
Last waste input31 August 1972
Area0.61 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference352200, 179800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.