Church Lane
IndustrialCommercial
Church Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coggeshall, Essex. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1970 and 1981, covering about 1.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD01727, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01727 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Church Lane |
| Address | Marks Tey, Colchester |
| Site operator | Ronald F West Limited |
| Licence holder | Ronald F West Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 1.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 591100, 224300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Colliers BrickyardWaste types not recorded
- Church LaneIndustrialCommercial
- London RoadInert
- Foundry 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.