Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.1b
SpecialIndustrialHousehold
Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.1b is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received special (hazardous), industrial and household waste between 1955 and 1965, covering about 1.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD14408, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD14408 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.1b |
| Address | Carmarthen Bay |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electrical Authority |
| Licence issued | 12 May 1995 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 August 1996 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Area | 1.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South West CY |
| Grid reference | 246400, 200800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.1bSpecialIndustrialHousehold
- Carmarthen Bay Power StationSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.2SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
- Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.3SpecialIndustrialHousehold
- Off Woodbrook TerrHousehold
- Carmarthen Bay Power Station No.1cSpecialIndustrialHousehold
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.