Cams Bay Tip
HouseholdCommercial
Cams Bay Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fareham, Hampshire. It received household and commercial waste from 1969, covering about 18.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD20612, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20612 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cams Bay Tip |
| Address | Birdwood Grove, Fareham, Hampshire |
| Site operator | Fareham Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Fareham Urban District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 18.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 459000, 105100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Birdwood Grove TipIndustrialInert
- Spoil Heap South of Foxbury PointHouseholdCommercial
- Reclamation Of Part Of Fareham LakeWaste types not recorded
- Land near Wicor HardHousehold
- Hamblens PitIndustrialInert
- Pond At Wych FarmHouseholdCommercial
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.