Landfill Check

Carnsew Quarry Landfill

Waste types not recorded

Carnsew Quarry Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penryn, Cornwall. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1992 and 2019, covering about 1.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD36073, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36073
Site nameCarnsew Quarry Landfill
AddressMabe, Burnthouse,Penryn,Cornwall
Site operatorAram Resources Ltd
Licence holderAram Resources Ltd
Licence issued13 November 1992
Licence surrendered20 May 2019
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.25 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDevon and Cornwall
Grid reference176200, 34800

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

Boundary map

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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.