Cocking Causeway
IndustrialInert
Cocking Causeway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Midhurst, West Sussex. It received industrial and inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD20069, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20069 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cocking Causeway |
| Address | Midhurst, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A J Prescott and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 December 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 October 1990 |
| First waste input | 25 January 1988 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1990 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 487900, 119200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Pitsham RoughWaste types not recorded
- Pendean Sand Pit WSCCHouseholdCommercialInert
- Holmbush Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Holmbush WayWaste types not recorded
- Old West's Wood YardWaste types not recorded
- New RoadWaste types not recorded
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.