Defford Airfield (Area G)

Name: EA Historic Landfill Sites
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence

Inert

Defford Airfield (Area G) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pershore, Worcestershire. It received inert waste from 1994, covering about 1.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD27951, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA reference	EAHLD27951
Site name	Defford Airfield (Area G)
Address	Defford, Worcestershire
Site operator	Not recorded
Licence holder	Mr L Prosser
Licence issued	24 February 1994
Licence surrendered	Not recorded
First waste input	31 December 1994
Last waste input	Not recorded
Area	1.24 ha
Gas control	Not recorded
Leachate containment	Not recorded
Licensed site	Yes
EA area	Lower Severn MI
Grid reference	389600, 243800

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.