Landfill Check

Cliff Quay Power Station

Waste types not recorded

Cliff Quay Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ipswich, Suffolk. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1977 and 1987, covering about 1.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD03029, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03029
Site nameCliff Quay Power Station
AddressCliff Quay, Ipswich
Site operatorControl Electricity Generatin Board
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued14 July 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area1.52 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference617100, 242200

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

Boundary map

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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.