Faygate Landfill Site
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Faygate Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horsham, West Sussex. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1965 and 1994, covering about 25.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD20023, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20023 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Faygate Landfill Site |
| Address | Colgate, Shoreham, Sussex |
| Site operator | Crawley Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | West Sussex County Council |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 25.46 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 521700, 133000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Rusper RoadInert
- Dales TipIndustrialInert
- Holmbush PotteriesIndustrialInert
- Lower Grouse - Pear Tree FarmInert
- Buchan ParkIndustrialInert
- Land off Horsham RoadInert
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.