Creeting Hills
CommercialInert
Creeting Hills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Needham Market, Suffolk. It received commercial and inert waste between 1989 and 2004, covering about 1.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD01954, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01954 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Creeting Hills |
| Address | Creeting Hills, Creeting St Mary |
| Site operator | Breheny Contractors Limited |
| Licence holder | Breheny Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 July 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 February 2004 |
| First waste input | 28 July 1989 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 609700, 255500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Sally Woods LaneWaste types not recorded
- Creeting PitsInert
- Off Sally Wood's LaneLiquid / sludge
- Creeting PitsIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Creeting HillsInert
- Gallows HillIndustrialCommercialInert
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.