Landfill Check

CEGB Aberthaw Power Station

Waste types not recorded

CEGB Aberthaw Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1974 and 1975, covering about 38.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD31181, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD31181
Site nameCEGB Aberthaw Power Station
AddressNear Barry, Glam
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 April 1974
Last waste input31 December 1975
Area38.62 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaSouth East CY
Grid reference303100, 166300

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.