Landfill Check

Caister-On-Sea

Commercial

Caister-On-Sea is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. It received commercial waste between 1930 and 1975, covering about 6.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD31045, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD31045
Site nameCaister-On-Sea
AddressNorwich, Norfolk
Site operatorBlofield and Flegg Rural District Council with Great Yarmouth County Borough Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1930
Last waste input31 December 1975
Area6.55 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference651700, 310900

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.

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.