Blackbush Hanger
IndustrialCommercialInert
Blackbush Hanger is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Emsworth, Hampshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste from 1988, covering about 3.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD20474, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20474 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Blackbush Hanger |
| Address | Emsworth Common Road, Havant, Hampshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A and J Bull (Southern) Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 3 August 1988 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.85 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 474200, 108600 |
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.
- 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
- Southleigh ForestCommercialInert
- Clarkes DellInert
- Mayes Coppice FarmInert
- Pound BottomIndustrialCommercial
- East of Church HallIndustrialInert
- Cemetery LandWaste types not recorded
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.