Central Electricity Generating Board
SpecialIndustrialCommercial
Central Electricity Generating Board is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gloucester, Gloucestershire. It received special (hazardous), industrial and commercial waste from 1943, covering about 9.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD27892, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27892 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Address | Gloucester, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board, South Western Region |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1943 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 382400, 218400 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sudmeadow RoadIndustrialCommercial
- Gloucester Catttle MarketHousehold
- Sudmeadow RoadCommercial
- Gloucester Refuse TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Between 24 and 28 Hempsted LaneInert
- Over Lassington LaneWaste 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.