Camps Heath landfill Site
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Camps Heath landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lowestoft, Suffolk. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and commercial waste between 1977 and 1987, covering about 6.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD01927, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01927 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Camps Heath landfill Site |
| Address | Camps Heath, Oulton |
| Site operator | Suffolk County Council |
| Licence holder | Suffolk County Council |
| Licence issued | 9 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 January 1978 |
| First waste input | 10 June 1977 |
| Last waste input | 20 November 1987 |
| Area | 6.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 651500, 294500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hill LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- White's PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Holly Hill- Camps HeathIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Camps LaneWaste types not recorded
- White's PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Holly HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.