Cowley Lane
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Cowley Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste from 1899, covering about 11.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD11176, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11176 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cowley Lane |
| Address | Cowley Peachey, Yiewsley, Hillingdon, London |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | H Sabey |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1899 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 11.92 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 505100, 181400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- British Waterways SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- South of Packet Boat LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- East of Old Mill LaneWaste types not recorded
- Palmers Moor FarmInert
- Land to the North of Iver LaneInert
- The LizzardsIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.