Landfill Check

Bowmans Green Farm

Inert

Bowmans Green Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste in 1994, covering about 0.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD10025, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD10025
Site nameBowmans Green Farm
AddressSailsbury Hall, London Colney, Hertfordshire
Site operatorAluma Group Limited
Licence holderAluma Group Limited
Licence issued14 June 1994
Licence surrendered30 January 2001
First waste input14 June 1994
Last waste input30 November 1994
Area0.57 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference519700, 202400

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.

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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.