Chapel Hill
Industrial
Chapel Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Braintree, Essex. It received industrial waste from 1957, covering about 5.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD31154, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31154 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chapel Hill |
| Address | Braintree, Essex |
| Site operator | Lake and Elliot Founders and Engineers Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1957 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 576800, 222500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chapel HillIndustrialInert
- Rose HillIndustrial
- Notley RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Straits MillHousehold
- Between A127 and Gt Notley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Convent LaneIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.