Dry Dock No.5
Inert
Dry Dock No.5 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Southampton, City of Southampton. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 0.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD20575, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20575 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dry Dock No.5 |
| Address | Prince Of Wales Dry Dock, Southampton Docks, Southampton, Hampshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 July 1979 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 442600, 109900 |
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
- Dry Dock No.3Waste types not recorded
- Dry Dock No.1Waste types not recorded
- Dry Dock No.2Waste types not recorded
- Dry Dock No.4Waste types not recorded
- Inner DockWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Ex-Navy StoresHousehold
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.