Eastland Wood
Liquid / sludgeInert
Eastland Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1982 and 1988, covering about 2.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD20014, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20014 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Eastland Wood |
| Address | Scaynes Hill, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D J Nichols |
| Licence issued | 10 May 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 September 1989 |
| First waste input | 19 August 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 2.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 536000, 123100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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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.