Fairlee Gas Holder Sump Landfill
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Fairlee Gas Holder Sump Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newport, Isle of Wight. It received industrial and inert waste between 1990 and 2000, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD20969, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20969 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fairlee Gas Holder Sump Landfill |
| Address | Off Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle Of Wight |
| Site operator | Transco |
| Licence holder | British Gas Southern |
| Licence issued | 14 February 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 August 2000 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 450200, 89400 |
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
- Fairlee Railway CuttingInert
- Newport Relief RoadInert
- Pets At RestIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Dodnor Farm FieldInert
- Little Fairlee FarmInert
- Staplers FarmInert
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.