Block Fen
Waste types not recorded
Block Fen is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1989 and 1991, covering about 6.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD01821, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01821 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Block Fen |
| Address | Mepal |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | ARC Eastern Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 June 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 6.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 543800, 284300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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.