Deben Farms
CommercialInert
Deben Farms is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Felixstowe, Suffolk. It received commercial and inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 0.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD01870, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01870 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Deben Farms |
| Address | Alderton |
| Site operator | Deben Farms |
| Licence holder | Deben Farms |
| Licence issued | 21 April 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1991 |
| First waste input | 22 April 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1991 |
| Area | 0.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 633300, 241700 |
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.
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.