Landfill Check

Crooks Marsh Farm Sevalco

IndustrialCommercialInert

Crooks Marsh Farm Sevalco is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Filton, South Gloucestershire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 3.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD09816, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09816
Site nameCrooks Marsh Farm Sevalco
AddressHallen, Avonmouth
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThe County Council of Avon
Licence issued18 October 1977
Licence surrendered31 December 1979
First waste input31 October 1977
Last waste input31 December 1979
Area3.06 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference354800, 181700

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.