Landfill Check

Down Barnes Estate

Inert

Down Barnes Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bushey, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1994 and 1997, covering about 10.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD11361, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11361
Site nameDown Barnes Estate
AddressDown Barnes Estate, West End Road, Northolt, Middlesex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWest London Shooting Grounds
Licence issued29 April 1994
Licence surrendered22 December 1997
First waste input11 August 1994
Last waste input5 August 1997
Area10.06 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference510800, 183400

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.

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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.