Landfill Check

Church Comissioners

Liquid / sludgeInert

Church Comissioners is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1960 and 1983, covering about 30.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD11099, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11099
Site nameChurch Comissioners
AddressAshford Road, Lower Feltham, Feltham, Middlesex
Site operatorGreenhams sand and Gravel
Licence holderGreenham Sand and Ballast Company Limited
Licence issued27 July 1981
Licence surrendered22 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1960
Last waste input31 December 1983
Area30.77 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East TH
Grid reference509200, 172200

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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.