Ex-Whipps Cross Lido
Inert
Ex-Whipps Cross Lido is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chigwell, Essex. It received inert waste between 1965 and 1984, covering about 1.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD11400, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11400 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ex-Whipps Cross Lido |
| Address | Whipps Cross |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bulk Earthmoving Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 20 January 1984 |
| Area | 1.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 539200, 188900 |
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
- Land Adjacent to Central LineInert
- Forest Road Allotment SiteInert
- French's FieldWaste types not recorded
- Landscape RoadWaste 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.