Landfill Check

Channelsea Creek

Inert

Channelsea Creek is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near City of London, Greater London. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 4.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD11045, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11045
Site nameChannelsea Creek
AddressMill Meads, Newham, London
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderL B Newham
Licence issued5 December 1983
Licence surrendered11 September 1984
First waste input6 December 1983
Last waste input11 September 1984
Area4.93 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference538600, 183500

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.