Bury Chalk Quarry
Inert
Bury Chalk Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Arundel, West Sussex. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1981, covering about 1.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD20000, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20000 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bury Chalk Quarry |
| Address | Bury, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | West Sussex County Council |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 April 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 1.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 500700, 112700 |
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.
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.