Elbourne House
IndustrialInert
Elbourne House is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Steyning, West Sussex. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1992, covering about 1.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD20020, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20020 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elbourne House |
| Address | Washington, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S P Mitchell |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 August 1982 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1979 |
| Last waste input | 17 August 1992 |
| Area | 1.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 512000, 112200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Glazeby RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- West of RMC WorkshopsWaste types not recorded
- RMC WorkshopWaste types not recorded
- Sandgate ParkInert
- Angells Sandpit LandfillWaste types not recorded
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.