Landfill Check

Broadlands Avenue

HouseholdInert

Broadlands Avenue is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near North Petherton, Somerset. It received household and inert waste in 1990, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD08557, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08557
Site nameBroadlands Avenue
AddressBoundaries of North Petherton Town Council
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr B R Pitman
Licence issued14 June 1990
Licence surrendered9 February 1993
First waste input1 July 1990
Last waste input30 August 1990
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference329500, 133000

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.