Cement Works Tip
Commercial
Cement Works Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. It received commercial waste from 1971, covering about 4.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD31012, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31012 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cement Works Tip |
| Address | Off Coldham's Lane, Cambridgeshire |
| Site operator | Cambridge City Council - City Surveyor's Department |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1971 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 548400, 257100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coldham's Lane TipCommercial
- Norman WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Coldhams LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Fulbourn TipWaste types not recorded
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.