Landfill Check

D Haird & Co Ltd - Old Chalk Pit

Waste types not recorded

D Haird & Co Ltd - Old Chalk Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Saffron Walden, Essex. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1993 and 2015, covering about 0.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD35920, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35920
Site nameD Haird & Co Ltd - Old Chalk Pit
AddressGreat Chesterford, B 184, Essex
Site operatorD Haird & Co Ltd
Licence holderD Haird & Co Ltd
Licence issued5 March 1993
Licence surrendered4 August 2015
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.9 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCambs and Bedfordshire
Grid reference551400, 242600

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

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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.